If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.