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

“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”

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

“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.” 

“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you  are sure to succeed.”

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

“To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.”

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.”

“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 this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

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