Abraham Lincoln

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

"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."

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

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

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

"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)"

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

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

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

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

"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."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"Achievement has no color"

"A house divided cannot stand."

"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."

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

"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."

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