Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.