Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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

Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the...

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 have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and t...

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.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such pur...

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

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.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.