10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Standing as I do,

with my hand upon this staff,

and under the folds of the American flag,

I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I hold that while man exists,

it is his duty to improve not only his own condition,

but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise

repeal all compromises repeal the Declaration of Independence

repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature.

It will be the abundance of man's heart that

slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart,

his mouth will continue to speak.

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 some and leaving others alone,

I would also do that.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of

his aren't very new at all.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,

you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Common looking people are the best in the world:

that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When I hear a man preach,

I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

If this is coffee,

please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea,

please bring me some coffee.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

If I were two faced,

would I be wearing this one?

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I do not think much of a man

who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I am a firm believer in the people.

If given the truth,

they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.

The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Government of the people,

by the people,

for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.