A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I must run the machine as I find it.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Everybody likes a compliment.