The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.