“I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.”

“Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”

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

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ”

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.”

“Writing is the great invention of the world.”

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

“Earth without ART is just EH”  “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

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

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”