"I am an optimist because I don't..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.”

“Never regret what you don't write.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.”

“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”

“And maybe, just maybe, it will.”

“As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.”

“Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.”

“Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?”