Achievement has no color

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men...

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college...

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of...

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and...

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to...

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness...

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme...

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word...

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”– –

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as...

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary...

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.