Politics Quotes

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him - at least, I find it so with myself; but when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to Death ?

Just think of such a sucker as me as President!

The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred, defeats.

Though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

No party can command respect which sustains this year, what it opposed last.

I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Public opinion is founded, to a great extent, on a property basis. What lessens the value of property is opposed, what enhances its value is favored.

I could not raise ten thousand dollars if it would save me from the fate of John Brown. Nor have my friends, so far as I know, yet reached the point of staking any money on my chances of success.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they can not have if we don't.