Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,...
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pro...
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.