Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.