“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

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

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

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

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

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“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 shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”

“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

“Fourscore and seven years ago...”

“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.”

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

“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”