We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.