I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just

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

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

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

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

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by...

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

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read

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