Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Votes: 48
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Votes: 9
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. Votes: 3
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Votes: 0
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Votes: 0
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. Votes: 0
Some day I shall be President. Votes: 0
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Votes: 0
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Votes: 0
The Almighty has His own purposes. Votes: 0
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Votes: 0
Achievement has no color Votes: 0
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Votes: 0
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. Votes: 0
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Votes: 0
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. Votes: 0
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. Votes: 0
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Votes: 0
Everybody likes a compliment. Votes: 0
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Votes: 0
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Votes: 0
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. Votes: 0
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God. Votes: 0
I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion. Votes: 0
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. Votes: 0
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Votes: 0
I never tire of reading Tom Paine. Votes: 0
Too many piglets not enough tits. Votes: 0
Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. Votes: 0
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Votes: 0
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. Votes: 0
Whatever you are, be a good one Votes: 0
I don't know who my grandfather was I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be Votes: 0
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Votes: 0
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next. Votes: 0
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Votes: 0
A house divided cannot stand. Votes: 0
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. Votes: 0
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. Votes: 0
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Votes: 0
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. Votes: 0
Life is hard but so very beautiful Votes: 0
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. Votes: 0
Never regret what you don't write. Votes: 0
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Votes: 0
Whatever you are, be a good one. Votes: 0
Nothing is stronger than gentleness. Votes: 0
You cannot fail unless you quit. Votes: 0
Honor is better than honors. Votes: 0
Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Votes: 0
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself Votes: 0
Labor is the true standard of value. Votes: 0
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. Votes: 0
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. Votes: 0
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow. Votes: 0
Whatever Ñоu are, bе а good one. Votes: 0
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Votes: 0
...Anxiety beclouds the future... Votes: 0
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Votes: 0
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country. Votes: 0
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision. Votes: 0
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. Votes: 0
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. Votes: 0
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. Votes: 0
If you love something, set it free. Votes: 0
I was raised to farm work. Votes: 0
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into? Votes: 0
Shall we stop this bleeding? Votes: 0
I am nothing, truth is everything. Votes: 0
The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own. Votes: 0
Too big to cry too young to laugh... Votes: 0
We cannot escape history. Votes: 0
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. Votes: 0
I walk slowly, but never backwards. Votes: 0
This nation under God Votes: 0
the better angels of our nature Votes: 0
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. Votes: 0
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. Votes: 0
Work, work, work, is the main thing. Votes: 0
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. Votes: 0
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. Votes: 0
Be excellent and party on dudes. Votes: 0
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. Votes: 0
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else. Votes: 0
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair. Votes: 0
I can't spare this man, he fights! Votes: 0
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. Votes: 0
It's bad. It's damned bad. Votes: 0
Human-nature will not change. Votes: 0
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 0
My policy is to have no policy. Votes: 0
We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better? Votes: 0
Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do. Votes: 0
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War. Votes: 0
One is a majority if he is right. Votes: 0
Never change horses in midstream. Votes: 0
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. Votes: 0
Teach hope to all, despair to none. Votes: 0
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power. Votes: 0
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day. Votes: 0
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools. Votes: 0
When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time. Votes: 0
Everybody likes compliment. Votes: 0
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Votes: 0
The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right. Votes: 0
I want in all cases to do right. Votes: 0
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? Votes: 0
We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. Votes: 0
The will of God prevails. Votes: 0
Every head should be cultivated. Votes: 0
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed. Votes: 0
I am not an accomplished lawyer. Votes: 0
When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it. Votes: 0
Everybody appreciates a compliment. Votes: 0
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die. Votes: 0