Abraham Lincoln

"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."

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

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

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

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

"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"

"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."

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