Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

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

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

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

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

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

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

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

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

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

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.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

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

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 never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.