Abraham Lincoln

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

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"

"Achievement has no color"

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"The best way to predict your future is to create it"

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

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

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

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

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

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"

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

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

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

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."

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

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"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."