Abraham Lincoln

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

It's a party of hope for America. Lincoln gave Americans hope through equal opportunities for all.

I feel somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.

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.

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

What is conservatism It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

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

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

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

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Some day I shall be President.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.