The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made... - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

"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"

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

"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."