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

As our case is new,

we must think and act anew.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

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.

The people will save their government,

if the government itself will allow them.

Never stir up litigation.

A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Never regret what you don't write.

These men ask for just the same thing,

fairness, and fairness only.

This, so far as in my power,

they, and all others, shall have.

With public sentiment,

nothing can fail.

Without it,

nothing can succeed.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Everybody likes a compliment.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

No matter how much cats fight,

there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,

it is simply purgatory.