I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

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

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

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

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

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