Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
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Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return.
I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all in their separate and individual capacities.
Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap.
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.
I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
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.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
The Almighty has His own purposes.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.