“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

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

“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall.”

“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.”

“You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.”

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

“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.” 

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

“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”

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

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”