Abraham Lincoln

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

If I am killed, I can see no possible advantage to be gained by it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

When I get ready to go to sleep, I go and do it.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Let him plow his land if it suits him.