Abraham Lincoln

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.