All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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.
With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual cap...
Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.
Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right we...
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of th...
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...
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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.
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of t...
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.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.