Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.