Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.