“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.”

“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by”

“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.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

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

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

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

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”

“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run"

“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.” 

“Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.”