Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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 a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
We cannot escape history.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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