"No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention."

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

"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."

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

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"I told you I was sick."

"Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?"

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

"Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you are in conflict with yourself."