Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.