“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“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.” 

“If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

“Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself”

“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“If Abraham Lincoln were alive now, he'd roll over in his grave.”

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

“I never tire of reading 

“A house divided cannot stand.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”