Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right we...
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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...
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...
... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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...
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.
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...
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.
A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of t...
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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...