The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to [...]
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but [...]
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with [...]
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
I don’t like that man. I [...]
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but [...]
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and [...]