He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
No man ever got lost on a straight road.
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Honor is better than honors.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
Achievement has no color
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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