“He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

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

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“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 was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”

“A half effort is a wasted effort.”

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