You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.