1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

In all that people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.