"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.”

“The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.”

“I can't spare this man, he fights!”

“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”

“Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.”

“If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg”

“Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.”