I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew...
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane...
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
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.
No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and...
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.