Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most...
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.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requi...
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it b...
Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.
... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could...