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

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

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

“you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

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

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.”

“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”

“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 semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.”

“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

“I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

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

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.”

“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.”