None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest..

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; ….

Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care ….

the better angels of our nature.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in s….

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already bee….

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion..

Everybody likes compliment..

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statement….

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you..

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too….

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up..

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We c….

Nothing is stronger than gentleness..

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of s….

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sen….

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export….

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked,….

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a p….

[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the….