If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.