Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.