1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.