Quotes by President

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.

a house divided against itself cannot stand i believe this government cannot endure permanently halfslave and halffree i do not expect the union to be dissolvedi do not expect the house to fall but i do expect it will cease to be divided it will become all one thing or all the other.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty and i intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

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

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.