With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.