It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.