I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.