There may be mistakes made sometimes; and things may be done wrong, while the officers of the Government do all they can...
It is fair that each man shall pay taxes in exact proportion to the value of his property; but if we should wait, before...
We have, as all will agree, a free government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.
Let my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of slavery is not necessary to a restoration of the Union.
I cannot fly from my thoughts--my solicitude for this great country follows me wherever I go.
You cannot conciliate the South if you guarantee to them ultimate success.
Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe.
Should I do so, I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity.
The slightest knowledge of arithmetic will prove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be destroyed by Democratic stra...
So long as I am President, it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union.
No human power can subdue this rebellion without the use of the emancipation policy.
There is no program offered by any wing of the Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruction of the...
Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my call for 500,000 volunteers for the military servic...
Volunteers will be accepted under this call for one, two, or three years, as they may elect, and will be entitled to the...
To whom it may concern: Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and t...
And I hereby proclaim, order, and direct that immediately after the 5th day of September, 1864, being fifty days from th...
