1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

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

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.