Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.