Abraham Lincoln: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

With malice toward none, with charity for all.

Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.

It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having occurred in the discharge of his duties; and prior to his misfortune he bore the reputation of an efficient and…

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.