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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The best way to predict your future is to create it

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as...

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up...

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts,...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world…enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time...