Knavery and flattery are blood relations..

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in….

It's bad. It's damned bad..

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily g….

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better..

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make..

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, ….

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went ho….

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it..

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable….

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave..

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition..

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it..

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, exc….

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship..

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost..

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending..

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful..

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting..

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully..