All true wisdom is found on T-shirts..

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..

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise..

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital..

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues..

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in oth….

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be de….

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

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering w….

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

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since..

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it..

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right..

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay..

Friendship is the start for what you call love..

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power..

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness..

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt..

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives….

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination..

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong..