Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief.

How much better for you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war and secures substantial compensation for that wh...

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