Abraham Lincoln Quotes

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

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 purp...

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which w...

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

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.