Quotes by President

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but i must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of america it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war i will close by saying god bless the women of america.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big white house i am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my fathers child has.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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

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

In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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.