Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

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

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

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 Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to to...

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.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

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

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

The will of God prevails. 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 th...

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some...

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.