Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Quotes

• People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

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

• I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

• My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

• 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.

• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

• To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

• As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

• A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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

• My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

• I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

• It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.