"A house divided against itself cannot stand...." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“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.”

“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”

“The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.”

“Differentiation is in name and form only.”

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.”

“Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.”

“Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

“Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.”