1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.