No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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

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

Message to his son’s teacher: 'Teach him the wonder of books but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.'

Whatever you are, be a good one.

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

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Right makes might.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

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

Capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people.

This Johnson is a queer man

Here comes my friend Douglass!

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong... I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world... causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.