Too big to cry too young to laugh.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.