Abraham Lincoln said...

The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of War, which, with my permission, has been delayed until the present ti...