“A house divided cannot stand.”

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

“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.”

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

“Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”

“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

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

“If Friendship is your weakest point, you are the strongest person in the world.”

“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. ”

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

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“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.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

“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.”