“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“Може да лъжеш някои хора през цялото време или всички през повечето време,но не можеш да лъжеш всички през цялата време.”

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

“I never tire of reading 

“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.” 

“This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”

“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

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

“Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

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

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