1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I must run the machine as I find it.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.