Abraham Lincoln — "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I coul…"

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"My early life, and indeed the whole of my life, has been one of toil and hardship."

"I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are not to blame for the institution of slavery among them. They are in the condition of a man with a wen on his neck. It is an excrescence, but y…"

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"