“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“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.”

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“And this, too, shall pass away.”

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

“Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be 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 — 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 government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

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

“But for this book we could not know right from wrong.”

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

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

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

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”

“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”