If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which have continued through his appointed time he now wills to remove and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him. Fondly do we hope - Fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away - yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nations wounds to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan - To do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

In this temple
As in the hearts of the people
For whom he Saved the Union
The memory of Abraham Lincoln
is enshined forever

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Quote by Abraham Lincoln