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

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

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

“Fourscore and seven years ago...”

“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.” 

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

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