"If you once forfeit
the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I have always believed
that all men should be free.
But if any should be slaves it should be first
those who wish it for themselves, and second,
those who wish it for others.
Whenever I hear a man arguing for slavery
I feel the strong desire to see it
tried on him personally."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Let us have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us to the end dare
to do our duty as we understand it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are,
be a good one."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle
ought not to deter us from the support
of a cause we believe to be just."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal...
We here highly resolve that the dead
shall not have died in vain,
that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom;
and that government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth."
-Abraham Lincoln