“Avoid popularity if you would have peace”

“If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier”

“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“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...”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

“I never tire of reading 

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

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”

“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.” 

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.”

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

“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.”