This nation under God

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts