I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

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