Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Four score 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.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.