“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Success“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
Politics“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
Success“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 earth.”
Best“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
Great“Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
Faith“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Government“I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
Best“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
Respect“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
Business“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
Equality“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Government“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Friendship“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
Pet“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
Best“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
Freedom“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
God“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 for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
War“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
Time“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Marriage“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.”
Equality“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Time