Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
"We trust, Sir, that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.