Abraham Lincoln

"The Union must and shall be preserved."

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

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single word of one syllable."

"If there is a worse place than Hell, I am afraid the Lord is keeping it for my enemies."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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

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

"We are not enemies, but friends."

"Nothing is stronger than true courage."

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

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth a new nation."

"This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom."

"What is to be will be, and no prayer of ours can arrest it."

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, 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."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"The human soul may be exhausted, but it cannot be conquered."

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

"I have never been cured of the habit of being a poor speaker."

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

"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two-thirds of the time thinking about what they want to know."

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can."

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

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

"It has long been a grave question whether any belief should change a man, but it rarely changes him for the better."

"In the great task remaining before us, we must dedicate ourselves here."

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

"All I have learned, I have learned by the labor of my own hands."