“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“With Malice Towards None”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“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 am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.”

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”

“The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

“I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.”

“The most altruistic man is the most selfish.”

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you  are sure to succeed.”

“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

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