1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

With malice towards none; with charity for all....

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.