Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.