1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

We shall nobody save or meanly lose the last best hope

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.