1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.