Abraham Lincoln

"I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it."

"Absent from the body, and present with the Lord."

"I see the storm coming, and I know his hand is in it."

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can."

"It is true that a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

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

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say that a neighboring nation will invade us."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"I have not permitted myself to suppose that either the Convention or the League have committed themselves as respecting my re-nomination."

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

"In the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

"These are the times that try men's souls."

"Let us therefore brace ourselves up, and act as men."

"Public sentiment is everything."

"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."

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

"A lawyer's chief work is done outside the courtroom."

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future."

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object."

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy."

"The nation's founders understood that the Constitution they framed was provisional, made for the people."

"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good."

"I have simply tried to do my duty as I understood it."

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run."

"I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."

"My father was a wandering laboring boy, and he grew to manhood."

"I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right."

"Upon these let us act, with assured success and with perfect success."