Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.