1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....

My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg