Quotes by politician

I have been driven many times upon 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 that day.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

If i am killed i can die but once but to live in constant dread of it is to die over and over again.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful or till i die or am conquered or my term expires or congress or the country forsakes mea capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others it is the key or one of the keys to the already solved problems and not only so it gives a relish and facility for successfully pursuing the yet unsolved ones.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.