1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

[December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

[October} 13th [1862] (To McClellan) ...if we never try, we shall never succeed.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.