“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”

“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.” 

“Semua orang bisa tahan dengan kesengsaraan, tapi bila kau ingin mengetahui karakter seseorang, berilah dia kekuasaan.”

“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

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

“The most altruistic man is the most selfish.”

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”

“If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!”

“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”