1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

We cannot escape history.

There are too many pigs for the teats

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.

If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.