The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.