Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
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.
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.
Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.
Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
