Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

Labor is the true standard of value.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.