Abraham Lincoln

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

By all means, don't say, \'if I can,\' say \'I will.\'

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.