The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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