Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

One is a majority if he is right.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

The Almighty has His own purposes.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

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

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.