Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy: 'The short and simple annals of the poor.'"

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

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

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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

"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"The true greatness of a person is not measured by the length of their life, but by the depth of their character."

"I have come to the firm conviction that the highest assurance of the American people selecting men for their highest offices is to get into those men a religious nature."

"It is rather for us to be dedicated here to the unfinished work."

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it."

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

"Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

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

"Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous."

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

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

"Whatever my fate through life, the ability to read has been my greatest asset."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"The only true way to defeat an enemy is to make a friend of him."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."