“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

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

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

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“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.” 

“Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”

“Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.”

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

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

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”