“A house divided cannot stand.”

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

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.”

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

“IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.”

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

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run"

“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.” 

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“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 up to what light I have.”

“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”

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

“If Abraham Lincoln were alive now, he'd roll over in his grave.”