Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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.

Whatever you are be a good one.

When I do good I feel good. When I do bad I feel bad. That's my religion.

If this is coffee please bring me some tea, but if this is tea please bring me some coffee.

I walk slowly but I never walk backward.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

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

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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

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

If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one?

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.

As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.