When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.