There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

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.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her