An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so t….

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to ….

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 the light I have. I must stand with anybody….

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me..

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend..

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged..

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party..

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to intro….

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law….

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game..

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday..

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back..

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society..

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance..

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the ear….

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act….

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A gov….

This nation under God.

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation procl….

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war..