Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.