1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Great honor is due to those officers who remain true despite the example of their treacherous associates; but the greatest honor and most important fact of all is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

In the present civil war—it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party— and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

The rebellion thus began soon run into the present civil war; and, in certain respects, it began on very unequal terms between the parties. The insurgents had been preparing for it more than thirty years, while the government had taken no steps to resist them

Willpower was shaped by the guiding force of self-discipline.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Treat nature right and recycle cars; recycle light and and get to the stars.

But who could we get to go on such a mission to the stars? They would probably never be able to come back. They would either die on the way or have to stay at a far distant destination.