I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

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

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.