Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

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 what light I have.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

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

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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