1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all—gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.

Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, It's the life in your years.

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out

We must never sell old friends to buy old enemies.