Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requi...

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it b...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your ow...

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right we...

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

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 that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most...

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme of t...