"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the ...

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~












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"As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every Americ...
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that governm...
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
"In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was c...
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the hea...
"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 ar...
"We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
"Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.