1.  I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Speech, June 16, 1858

    2.  Let us have faith that makes right, and in faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859

    3.  In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
    Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862

    4.  That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.
    Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863

    5.  With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see right.
    March 4, 1865