Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

The will of God prevails.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing