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

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"

"A house divided cannot stand."

"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."