What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.