Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
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Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.
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Human-nature will not change.
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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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