At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be it...
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's hear...
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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 ex...
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery ext...
With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.