I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

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

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.