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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.
It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed