Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.