Abraham Lincoln

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”

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

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create”

“To believe in the things you can see and touch in no belief at all- but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”

“Sir, 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.”