If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.