The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

the better angels of our nature

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.