Abraham Lincoln

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

“Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”

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

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

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

“Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.”

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

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

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

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

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

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

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

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

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

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

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

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.”

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

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion. ”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“Yang penting bukan berapa kali aku gagal, tapi yang penting berapa kali aku bangkit dari kegagalan”

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“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.”