1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me.