Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
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.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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.
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
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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.
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.
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