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
We cannot escape history.
Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
Always remember: Life is for enjoying.
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
I can't spare this man, he fights!
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
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.
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.
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.
Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
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.
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