Abraham Lincoln

"Do not be intimidated or turned from your purpose by any illusory opposition you may encounter."

"My friends, I now leave, not knowing when I shall ever return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington."

"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall."

"The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil than of good."

"Were all the others in the world, except you and me, to disappear, I would grieve the loss of almost all other existences and joyfully remain with you."

"Important principles may and must be inflexible."

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would express some conception of my feelings, and whose tongue would offer some consolation to my misery."

"I accept the prediction that this agitation will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed."

"I am nothing, but truth is everything."

"The perpetuation of our political institutions is the great issue which links our fate as a people with our duty to posterity."

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

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

"That it shall not perish from the earth is something for all of us in every generation."

"I am bound by my oath which I shall keep inviolate."

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

"Without assumption of facts not appearing on the record, I can say nothing concerning the subject."

"The Union must and shall be preserved."

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward."

"It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion."

"I sometimes feel like a piece of sod tied to America's heart."

"I go forward always, looking to the time when I shall again see you."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."

"Calling the roll in the Senate the other day, I observed a woman elegantly dressed, but her countenance wore an expression of peculiar anxiety."

"I am concerned because I have not yet made a full and final commitment."

"No policy that does not rest on some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."

"I would like to be remembered as one who believed the best of human beings and trust them."

"Every man has a right to occupy his place."

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union."

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