“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“foods from goods is good food.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. 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.”

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”