"I have a congenital aversion to failure...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”

“During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!”

“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”

“I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.”

“I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.”

“I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.”

“Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.”

“The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.”

“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”