Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor – a criminal.
To lead, you must touch men’s hearts.
Let all Americans – let all lovers of liberty everywhere – join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
It doesn’t mater if you’re a slow walker, so long as you don’t walk backwards.
If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn’t anywhere else to go.
It’s time for me to go. But I would rather stay.
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
Shall we stop this bleeding?
I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!
Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.