1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.