Abraham Lincoln Quotes

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the peop...

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived i...

The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with a...

My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very...

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, comp...

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculat...

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to b...

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of th...

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail...

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the ...

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who as...

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holid...

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our father...

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness ...

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was a...

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military ...

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, be...

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...

Important principles may and must be flexible.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower...

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they s...

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legis...

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never ...

Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but...

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony beca...

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only...

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the coun...

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him r...

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of ...

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. The...

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca...

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest gener...

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitu...

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived i...

"We trust Sir that God is on our side." "It is more important to know that we are on God's side."

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeg...

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy...

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow ...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constit...

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do a...

Achievement has no color

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America...

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to ma...

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generatio...

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as...

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep y...

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle w...

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exi...

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. ...

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief i...

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scr...

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...