Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“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.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

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

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.”

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbours to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man.”

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.”

“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.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”

“The mystic chords of memory will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.”

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”

“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”