1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act anew.