Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

It's bad. It's damned bad.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.