1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Happy Birthday Mom.

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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

You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother. Happy Birthday Mom.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.