Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must...

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right...

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a...

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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. Labor is the superior of capital,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.