Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

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

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.