1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.