May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave…

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 …

You and I are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other races. Whether it be right or wrong, I need not dis…

A hundred years from tonight, another American President will stand in this place and report on the State of the Union. He-or she-(applause)-he or she will loo…

'My late mother used to say that it did not matter if you came to this country on the Mayflower or a slave ship, across the Rio Grande or through Ellis Island;…

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!