When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Everybody likes a compliment.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always pluck a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

We here 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.

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.

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

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

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.