Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Abraham Lincoln on Wise Famous Quotes.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.
Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.