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

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.