The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people..

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present..

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years..

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's li….

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was..

If you have never failed you have never lived..

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself..

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow..

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish..

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail..

History is not history unless it is the truth..

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out..

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy..

Life is hard but so very beautiful.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that s….

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle..

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of m….

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down..

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong..

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most..

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him….