"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." - Abraham Lincoln

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." - Abraham Lincoln

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln

"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." - Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. " - Abraham Lincoln

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln