We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side..

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it.

Human-nature will not change..

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too litt….

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me..

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy….

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 Co….

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan..

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known..

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great ….

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything..

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to..

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors ar….

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade..

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man….

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been ….

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penet….

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion..

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also..

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones..

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it..