As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty....

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of...

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward

Whatever you are, be a good one

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just

Fourscore 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