1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.