1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy.

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.