My policy is to have no policy.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

This nation under God

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

Human-nature will not change.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.