A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end do our duty as we understand it.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.