"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."

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

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

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

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

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

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

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

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

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

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

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

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

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

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

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

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."

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

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

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

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter u"

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

"Achievement has no color"

"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."

"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."

"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."

"Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong."

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

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

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

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

"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

"Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"Die when I may, 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."

"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

"Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it."

"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."

"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."

"Spread the good vibes and good vibes will come to you."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."