1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

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 to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.