Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that others consent.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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 in their separate and individual capacities.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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 nations wounds.

Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.

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

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect and defend it.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.