Abraham Lincoln

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

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is rather for us 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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.