| Quotes |
Topic |
| Character | Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. |
| Charity | With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in. |
| Citizenship | Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling. |
| Confidence | If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. |
| Constitution | Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. |
| Control | What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. |
| Criticism | He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. |
| Deceit | You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. |
| Democracy | Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. |
| Democracy | As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. |
| Dogs | How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. |
| Encouragement | That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. |
| Experience | It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. |
| Experience | We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. |
| Feelings | When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. |
| Flattery | Knavery and flattery are blood relations. |
| Fools | Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. |
| Force | Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. |
| Freedom | Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. |
| Friendship | Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? |
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