A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.