Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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

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

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

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

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

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years.

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