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

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

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

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 is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.