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

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

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”

“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

“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.” 

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

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

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”