God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Some suggestions for you :

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.

Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

That 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 this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.