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.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.