You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.