Abraham Lincoln And Quotations

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

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

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.