Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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...
Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.
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...
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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.
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.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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...
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
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