Abraham Lincoln

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

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

"I hope to stand with anybody that stands right."

"The real difficulties seem to be three."

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

"I am a firm believer in the people."

"Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country."

"I never knew how to worship, and never doubted that I should sometime know."

"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself."

"The man who has never made a mistake will never try anything new."

"Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we may be called upon to consider."

"I do not fear to die, for I have lived."

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me."

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

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

"I am now the most miserable man living."

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

"The Almighty has his own purposes."

"I have always thought that all people are created equal, but now realize some legislators are more equal than others."

"May we not all labor in one cause, with heart and hand and voice?"

"I am not a very sentimental man."

"We cannot ask a man to vote against his interests."

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

"I want to do something noble and striking and original."

"Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing."

"I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."

"I have learned that nothing is ever certain but death and taxes."

"I think nothing is unconstitutional that protects the liberties of a free people."

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

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."