Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

I can't sleep, and I haven't slept, for I am thinking of the poor fellows who are to die tomorrow.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I cannot be wrong; and yet, how many think I am!

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

It is better to be a young man of 60 than an old man of 40.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Permit me to say that, in my humble judgment, I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

He has a right to criticize, but he has no right to misrepresent.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward.

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.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.