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| If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg | | Appearance | |
| If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguised than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. | | Confidence | |
| If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend | | Politics | |
| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause. | | Uncategorized | |
| Important principles may and must be inflexible. | | Principles | |
| In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. | | Uncategorized | |
| In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. | | Uncategorized | |
| In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot | | Uncategorized | |
In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best
gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was
communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right
from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and
hereafter, are found portrayed in it. | | Uncategorized | |
| In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity. | | Integrity; Responsibility | |
| It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness. | | Uncategorized | |
| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | | Friends | |
| It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues | | Uncategorized | |
| It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies | | Government; Liberty | |
