Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Man is most free when he is most guided.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

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, and beer.

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.

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

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other 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.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.