We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.