1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Honor is better than honors.

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble ...

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.