Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Break that lever before their faces, and they can shake you no more forever.

To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewi...

I intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opinion, if you all had voted for the resolution in the gradual-emancipation...

I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually.