1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.