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...
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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...
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...
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or...
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.