“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

“Anything can be a bucket if you try hard enough and believe.”

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

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

“And this, too, shall pass away.”

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

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

“IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.”

“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.” 

“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”

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.”

“Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”