Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis."

"A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade."

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

"I have always been a practical man in such matters."

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"Fourscore 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."

"I would rather be assassinated than see this Union dissolved."

"A friend is one who has the same enemies you have."

"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also."

"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."

"It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side."

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present."

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can."

"The Almighty has His own purposes."

"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."

"A man cannot do right in one department whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another department."

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

"The very first of all the commandments of God is that of honesty."

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."

"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."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday."

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision."

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper."

"You may have a unkind cut, but as long as you move forward, you are making progress."