Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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 nation's wounds.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
