How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

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If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.