Abraham Lincoln

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

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