Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.