Abraham Lincoln actually said...

The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade has been put into operation with a good prospect of complete success.

Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.

The struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exagg...

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 occ...