In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good..

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it..

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one..

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs ….

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion..

I was raised to farm work..

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest….

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere..

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slaver….

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not ….

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind..

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall d….

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read wi….

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You ha….

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to ….

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination..

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind..

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free..

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me..