If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Abraham Lincoln had a moral elevation most rare in a statesman, or indeed in any man.

Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: 'He died an unbeliever.'

Once he called upon General McClellan, and the President went over to the General's house - a process which I as-sure you has been reversed long since - and Ge…

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Twenty-five years ago this Republic was bearing and wearing a triple chain of bondage. Long familiarity with traffic in the bodies and souls of men had paralyz…

The will of the nation, speaking with the voice of battle and through the amended Constitution, has fulfilled the great promise of 1776 by proclaiming 'liberty…