Abraham Lincoln

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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