Lincoln: The Unknown: Whatever you are, be a good one.

by Dale Carnegie

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear and the song and the dirge Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.

"When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."

When Lincoln lay dying in a rooming-house across the street from Ford's Theater, the iron Stanton, who had once denounced him as "a painful imbecile," said, "There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen."

"I desire," he said, "to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be deep down inside of me. ... I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.