Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)