“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.” 

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

“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.”

“With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap”

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”

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