“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

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

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and wll ever to struggle.”

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

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

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

“I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by”

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

“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”

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

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

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“RESPONSE TO POLITICAL SMEAR TO ROBERT ALLEN New Salem, June 21, 1836 DEAR COLONEL:—I am told that during my absence last week you passed through this place, and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which, if known to the public, would entirely destroy the prospects of N. W. Edwards and myself at the ensuing election; but that, through favor to us, you should forbear to divulge them. No one has needed favors more than I, and, generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it. That I once had the confidence of the people of Sangamon, is sufficiently evident; and if I have since done anything, either by design or misadventure, which if known would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country’s interest. I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. I wish an answer to this, and you are at liberty to publish both, if you choose. Very respectfully, A. LINCOLN.”