Public opinion in this country is everything.

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.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.