Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case... - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

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

"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."