“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

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

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”

“I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them”

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

“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.”

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”