1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Quando faccio bene mi sento bene. Quando faccio male mi sento male. Questa è la mia religione.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.