Abraham Lincoln
(page 3)

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

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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

Repeal the Missouri Compromise — repeal all compromises — repeal the Declaration of Independence — repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.