Abraham Lincoln: “Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more…”

Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.