1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

No. The mule has just four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.