Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

We cannot escape history.