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It was my intention, as shown by my letter of June 20, 1861, to appoint Hon. James H. Lane, of Kansas, a brigadier-general of United States Volunteers, in anticipation of the act of Congress since passed for raising such volunteers;
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to…
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
To destroy the spirit of the Union, is to destroy the Union itself.
This is essentially a People's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men--to lift artificial weights from…
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.