“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

“Whatever you are be a good one.”

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”

“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.” 

“It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.”

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

“I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.”

“Achievement has no color”

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”