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

A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do t….

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. I….

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope..

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence o….

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his….

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the wor….

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded..

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.….

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues..

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at lea….

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day..

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it..

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let….

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense..

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth..

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number..

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, ha….

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well..

Everybody likes a compliment..

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good..