“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

“I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”

“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.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

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

“Everybody likes compliment.

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

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

“I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by”

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

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

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

“RESPONSE TO POLITICAL SMEAR TO ROBERT ALLEN New Salem, June 21, 1836 DEAR COLONEL:—I am told that during my absence last week you passed through this place, and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which, if known to the public, would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Edwards and myself at the ensuing election; but that, through favor to us, you should forbear to divulge them. No one has needed favors more than I, and, generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it. That I once had the confidence of the people of Sangamon, is sufficiently evident; and if I have since done anything, either by design or misadventure, which if known would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country’s interest. I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. I wish an answer to this, and you are at liberty to publish both, if you choose. Very respectfully, A. LINCOLN.”