Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work...
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it...
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said 'Truth...
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it...
When I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time...
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the...
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important...
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never...
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for...
I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise...
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
I can make more generals but horses cost money.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a...
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character...
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not...
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the...
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have...
In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your...
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward and yet not go forward fast...
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The...
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not I...
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it...
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended...
The people will save their government if the government itself will allow...
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of...
Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish...
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to...
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it....
Whatever you are be a good one.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
When I do good I feel good. When I do bad I feel bad. That's my religion.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...
Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to...
With Malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as...
Sir my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to...
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in...
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end...
My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content...
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.