The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite