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Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
– Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
– Abraham Lincoln
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
– Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
– Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
– Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
– Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
– Abraham Lincoln
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
– Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
– Abraham Lincoln
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
– Abraham Lincoln
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
– Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
– Abraham Lincoln
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
– Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
– Abraham Lincoln
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
– Abraham Lincoln
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
– Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
– Abraham Lincoln
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
– Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
– Abraham Lincoln
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
– Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
– Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
– Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
– Abraham Lincoln
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.
– Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
– Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
– Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
– Abraham Lincoln