"If I have one vice and I..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“That we 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.”

“I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.”

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.”

“Let no such man be trusted.”

“Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”