There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.