We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, b….

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg..

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do,….

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territor….

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have..

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already….

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what….

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel..

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes….

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm..

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend..

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help..

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn..

I will either be America's greatest president or its last..

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we a….

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it..

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came..

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetu….

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they foun….