I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.