Abraham Lincoln

"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"

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

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

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

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

"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."

"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)"

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

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

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

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."