1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior... Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?… Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.