1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything.If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.