Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.- Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
