Abraham Lincoln actually said...

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.