“If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to  succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

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

“I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.”

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

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

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.”

“Anything can be a bucket if you try hard enough and believe.”

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

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

“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.” 

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”