He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object