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..

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses..

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in t….

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

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual..

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….

Some day I shall be President..

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to ven….

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, th….

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

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

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint..

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….

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason..

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 ….

Never let your correspondence fall behind..

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible..

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….

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