"It is for us and our time...to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”

“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

“Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.”

“We must become just be doing just acts.”

“The time is always right to do right”

“This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.”

“The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.”