"Standing as I do, with my hand..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”

“No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.”

“It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will asnaturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.”

“Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.”

“The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.”

“I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.”

“Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.”

“I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.”

“It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.”