Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

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

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

Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.

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.

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

Fourscore 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.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.

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.

I dont know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at st have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.

We trust Sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on Gods side.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on Gods side.

Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.