Abraham Lincoln
(page 3)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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

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

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

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

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education — and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry — shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.