LINCOLN2

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The best things about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all in their separate and individual capacities.

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a course we believe to be just.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us finish the work we are in, to ind up the nation's wounds.