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.
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.
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...
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
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.
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...
A house divided cannot stand.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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,...
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or the...
I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.