Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

Human-nature will not change.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.