Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

The will of God prevails.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Some day I shall be President.

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

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

My God! My God! What will the country say?

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

This nation under God

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.