"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I …"

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."