Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution