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

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Four score 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.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Standing as I do,

with my hand upon this staff,

and under the folds of the American flag,

I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

I am naturally anti slavery.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

Important principles may,

and must,

be inflexible.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

There is another old poet whose name

I do not now remember who said,

'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,

and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,

I would do it;

and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,

you can never regain their respect and esteem.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.