The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

It is rather for us 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.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.