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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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.
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.