1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Most of us are just about happy as we make up our minds to be.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Let every American swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.