"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

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

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"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."

"How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg."

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them."

"My punishment is greater than I can bear"

"One either meets or one works."

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them."