If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rig….

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power..

By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that….

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it..

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools..

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole pe….

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are n….

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by sp….

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma..

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein..

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the se….

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation..

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know any….

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery….

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about..

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder..

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong..

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes..

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sur….

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will..

I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom..