Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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 true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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 think anew and act anew.
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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 nation’s wounds.