To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
Abraham LincolnAnd upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Abraham LincolnI could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Abraham Lincoln