My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.