1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Labor is the true standard of value.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.