1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Everybody likes a compliment.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.