Quotes by President

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.