What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham LincolnExtemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
Abraham LincolnI do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
Abraham LincolnA nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
Abraham LincolnIn the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.
Abraham Lincoln