"I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous."

"You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions."

"To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."

"Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."

"I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"Everybody likes a compliment."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."

"I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"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."