Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

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

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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"

"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."

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."

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

"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."

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

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"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."

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