"The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit."

"The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack."

"In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself."

"The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied."

"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females)."

"Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected."

"I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay."

"'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it."

"Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision."

"I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

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

"It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones."

"I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow."

"Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."

"Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation."

"My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say."

"It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life."

"I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model."

"It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits."

"I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig."

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

"It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."

"Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence."

"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."

"If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage"

"Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good."

"Try to relax and enjoy the crisis."

"Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing."

"I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."

"What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry?"

"The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."

"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."

"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

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

"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

"We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer"

"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power."

"Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules"

"A good friend is worth pursuing... but why would a good friend be running away?"

"Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about"

"There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco"

"Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?"

"With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations"