Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

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.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

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

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

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

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.