God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle