"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them."

"Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near."

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..."

"Man's main task is to give birth to himself."

"Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue."

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."