Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ”

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. ”

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. ”

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ”

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ”

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. ”

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? ”

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. ”

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ”

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. ”