Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is….

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises..

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother..

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient..

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an ol….

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there..

Violence begins where knowledge ends..

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet..

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, a….

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life..

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not….

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness..

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views..

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither ….

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as ….

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bo….

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good..

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it..

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one..