1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.