“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”

“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.” 

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

“I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them”

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.”

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

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

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

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

“If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right!”

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

“The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.”