We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing..

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time..

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have..

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair..

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended..

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual..

It's bad. It's damned bad..

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey..

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever..

Teach him to deny himself..

The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012..

Do you see those colors? Take them!.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!.

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or wi….

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again..

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never un….

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command..

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War..

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered..

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong..

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me..