We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses..

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so fa….

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived..

Some day I shall be President..

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on….

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportuni….

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no ….

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves..

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exerci….

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this..

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly..

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly i….

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just ….

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted..

The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous ….

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immor….

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice..

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly ….

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved..