“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”

“If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

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

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

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

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

“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.”

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”

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

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

“My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.”

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”