“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.”

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”

“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

“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 slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”

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

“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.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“And this, too, shall pass away.”

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

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.”

“Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”

“A half effort is a wasted effort.”