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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.