We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.