Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

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.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.