"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

"Public opinion in this country is everything."

"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."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."

"Some day I shall be President."

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

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

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

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

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

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

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

"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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

"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."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

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

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"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."

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."