10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I'm not sure about the former.

By what principle of original right is it that one

fiftieth or one

ninetieth of a great nation,

by calling themselves a State,

have the right to break up and ruin that nation

as a matter of original principle?

Let the people on both sides keep their self possession,

and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time,

so will this,

and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

I was born and have ever remained in

the most humble walks of life.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Some day I shall be President.

Why was the amendment,

expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery,

voted down?

Plainly enough now,

the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche

for the Dred Scott decision.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to

keep a young man down; and they will succeed,

too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from

its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

To give victory to the right,

not bloody bullets,

but peaceful ballots only,

are necessary.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

We can succeed only by concert.

It is not,

'Can any of us imagine better,' but,

'Can we all do better?'

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored,

and others have, without labor,

enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

The point the power to hurt

of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I perhaps ought to say that individually

I never was much interested in the Texas question.

I never could see much good to come of annexation,

inasmuch as they were already

a free republican people on our own model.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.