It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.