1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.