Occupation: 16th U.S. President Birth: February 12, 1809 Death: April 15, 1865
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves..
Always remember: Life is for enjoying..
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice..
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on….
A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted..
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move….
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormen….
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please ….
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived..
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses..
No man ever got lost on a straight road..
But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end..
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly ….
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea..
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much..
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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved..
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly..
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of ….
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm..