I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Be excellent and party on dudes.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.