Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it per….

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong..

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government..

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the r….

I can't spare this man, he fights!.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him..

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention..

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author..

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work..

We cannot escape history..

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buyin….

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation..

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have..

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends..

I am nothing, truth is everything..

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These sla….

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separ….

One is a majority if he is right..

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Ameri….

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to b….