“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

“I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.”

“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”

“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.” 

“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”

“You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.”

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

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“With Malice Towards None”

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...”

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

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