“If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!”

“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.” 

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

“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 up to what light I have.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

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

“Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.”