That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

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

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.