Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

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

“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”