You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

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?"