This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."