Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”

“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.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path.”

“Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap.”

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

“Work, work, work, is the main thing.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves.”

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world.”

“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.”

“I am rather inclined to silence, and it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”

“I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated.”

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union.”

“Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”

“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.”