“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.” 

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” 

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

“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.” 

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.” 

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” 

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” 

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” 

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” 

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these 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, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” 

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

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” 

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.” 

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” 

“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, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” 

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.” 

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.” 

“Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” 

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!” 

“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence” 

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.” 

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)” 

“Let no feeling of discouragement prey

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.” 

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” 

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” 

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” 

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” 

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” 

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” 

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” 

“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.” 

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

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” 

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.” 

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York."

"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."

"Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you've got a delicious treat."

"You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me."

"Emma Stone, I think, always looks beautiful."

"I've never gone on a date... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me."

"My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!"

"Family is at the heart of everything I do."

“War is what happens when language fails.”