Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

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

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you cant fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Achievement has no color

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for mans welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

I dont like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

A house divided cannot stand.