The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.