You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.