If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
Care for him who shall have borne the battle
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.