When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice