Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or...
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would...
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.
We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When th...
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.