President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Human-nature will not change.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.