[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
Abraham LincolnKings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
Abraham LincolnWriting, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
Abraham Lincoln