Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

My policy is to have no policy.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.