“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

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

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

“A half effort is a wasted effort.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." & “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people” – –”

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

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“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.”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you  are sure to succeed.”

“RESPONSE TO POLITICAL SMEAR TO ROBERT ALLEN New Salem, June 21, 1836 DEAR COLONEL:—I am told that during my absence last week you passed through this place, and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which, if known to the public, would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Edwards and myself at the ensuing election; but that, through favor to us, you should forbear to divulge them. No one has needed favors more than I, and, generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it. That I once had the confidence of the people of Sangamon, is sufficiently evident; and if I have since done anything, either by design or misadventure, which if known would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country’s interest. I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. I wish an answer to this, and you are at liberty to publish both, if you choose. Very respectfully, A. LINCOLN.”