No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.