1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.

These men ask for just the same thing: fairness, and fairness only. This is, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents

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

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.