1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.