Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.