A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.