Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.