Abraham Lincoln

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.

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 there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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.

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.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

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.

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

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