Never change horses in midstream.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.