It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us.….

I can make more generals, but horses cost money..

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind..

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees..

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats..

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothin….

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in sem….

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true ch….

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be….

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other….

Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may,….

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,….

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject….

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should ….

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly..

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered..

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity..

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as h….

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched..

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green ear….