1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.