By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.