Abraham Lincoln

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ”

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). ”

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

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ”

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. ”

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. ”

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? ”

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. ”

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. ”