It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.