More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"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."
"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
"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."
"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."