The important fact remains demonstrated that we have more men now than we had when the war began; that we are not exhausted nor in process of exhaustion; that we are gaining strength and may if need be maintain the contest indefinitely.
Lincoln emphasizes the strength and resilience of the Union's military forces during the Civil War.
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.
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