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| Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her | | Uncategorized | |
| Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. | | Marriage | |
| Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them | | Men | |
| Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood | | Military | |
| Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest | | Principles | |
| Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. | | Motivation | |
| Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be | | Mind; People | |
| Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? | | Government | |
| My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. | | Uncategorized | |
| My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them | | Christianity; Reason | |
| My father taught me to work, he did not teach me to love it. | | Uncategorized | |
| My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work. | | Work | |
| My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. | | Concern | |
| My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter | | Family | |
| Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world | | Uncategorized | |
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| Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has | | Uncategorized | |
| No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced. | | Uncategorized | |
| No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. | | Uncategorized | |
