"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."
- from first inaugural address
"...the better angels of our nature"
- from first inaugural address
"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..."
- from second inaugural address
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."