The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.