If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vas….

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies..

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections..

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind..

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now an….

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry..

It is idle to await unanimity..

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all….

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous..

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens..

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to r….

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to res….

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour:….

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequence….

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that hav….

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is i….

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of….

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time..