My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?