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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.