“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”

“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

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

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“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.” 

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

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

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

“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

“Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other”