Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.