What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.