I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
From Abraham Lincoln
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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