“Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.”

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

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

“I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“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.” 

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable--nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.”

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

“If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!”

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

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

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”