The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Everybody likes a compliment

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind

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, to bind up the...

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from...

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and...

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts