Abraham Lincoln

I have been selected to fill an important office for a brief period, and am now, in your eyes, invested with an authority which I must soon yield to the regularly chosen successor, and which I hope to use for your benefit.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch, but once scratched, it is impossible to rub out.

I have been a good boy, and have not been in anybody's way, or in anybody's debt.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am not so good a Christian as I might be, but I am a good enough Christian to be a good man.

I fear that the people are not yet ready for a black man to be president.