Abraham Lincoln

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. ”

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

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

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. ”

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

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. ”

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ”

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 know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. ”

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. ”