Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.