"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."