Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Honor is better than honors.
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Achievement has no color
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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