Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test... - Abraham Lincoln

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

"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."

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

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

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."