It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.