The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite