1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

As I said before, this crisis is all artificial. It has no foundation in facts. It was not argued up, as the saying is, and, cannot, therefore, be argued down. Let it alone and it will go down of itself.

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

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

My childhood home I see again, / And gladden with the view; / And still as mem'ries crowd my brain, / There's sadness in it too. / O memory! though mid-way world / 'Twixt Earth and Paradise / Where things decayed, and loved ones lost / In dreamy shadows rise.

All that love's labor serves the nation. All that harms labor is treason to America. There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the other.

There is no permanent class of hired laborers among us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday labors on his own account today, and he will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

And in as much as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them.