But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.