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 the...
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
"We trust Sir that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.
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.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people...
I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have i...
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.