If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.