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

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

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

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

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

“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”

“I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.”

“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”