Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ››A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. ››You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. ››The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ››The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ››With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are in. ››Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ››I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side. ››Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. ››When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. ››In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. ››That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. ››We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ››I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ››Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend. ››Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ››
