Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

I have been driven many times to 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.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.

I have been driven many times to 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.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: If it wasnt for the honour of the thing Id rather walk.