It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong..

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today..

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter..

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it..

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man..

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream..

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can….

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens..

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condi….

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human bein….

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to k….

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer..

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar..

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enou….

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever..

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in ….

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the….

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a ….

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as….

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ou….

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest ….