Quotes by lawyer

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is more than half done already.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

"You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do."

And having thus chosen our course without guile and with pure purpose let us renew our trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence.

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission."

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

"A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere until you change it."

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty and the american people just now are much in want of one we all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.