“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.”

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

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

“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 great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

“They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

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

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”