1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I think I stand where that man stands.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. ... you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.