Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve."

"We must think anew, act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves from the past, and then we shall save our country."

"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 occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act an..."

"The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible."