I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization..

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it..

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

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure..

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him..

Never change horses in midstream..

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inau….

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of….

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps ….

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards..

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper..

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by a….

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; bu….

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Unio….

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises..

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail..

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed….

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever..

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter..

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy..

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I a….