1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

Everybody likes compliment.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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