Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
Abraham LincolnIf this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham LincolnIf once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham LincolnLet us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
Abraham Lincoln