We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.