“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.”

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

“He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand”

“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“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.”

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

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”

“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.” 

“Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”

“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”