Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men a….

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else..

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in num….

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it..

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay..

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (sl….

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this..

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read..

I am not an accomplished lawyer..

No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consi….

My God! My God! What will the country say?.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for w….

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible..

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man..

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last..

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die..

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquain….

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old..

The Almighty has His own purposes..

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it..