It is fair that each man shall pay taxes in exact proportion to the value of his property; but if we should wait, before collecting a tax, to adjust the taxes upon each man in exac...
There may be mistakes made sometimes; and things may be done wrong, while the officers of the Government do all they can...
I return to you my sincere thanks, soldiers, for the honor you have done me this afternoon.
Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil.
Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe.
So long as I am President, it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union.
There is no program offered by any wing of the Democratic party but that must result in the permanent destruction of the...
No human power can subdue this rebellion without the use of the emancipation policy.
Let my enemies prove to the country that the destruction of slavery is not necessary to a restoration of the Union.
Should I do so, I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity.
You cannot conciliate the South if you guarantee to them ultimate success.