Abraham Lincoln

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

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

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."

"A house divided cannot stand."

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

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time."

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."

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