I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest….

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me..

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere..

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to ….

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall d….

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union..

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out t….

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally..

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sinc….

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid..

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault..

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God..

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free..

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling..

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind..

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wis….

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you ….

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slaver….

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination..