Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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