“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

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

“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.”

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”

“The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.”

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“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.” 

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

“My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.”

“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”