“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
– Abraham Lincoln