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.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case.