Abraham Lincoln

“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 are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”

“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”

“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”

“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”

“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”