Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.