Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.