1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.