Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

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

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or the...

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,...

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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.

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.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

"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.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people...

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

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 the same time.

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

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.

With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have i...

A house divided cannot stand.