The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.- Abraham Lincoln
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
