1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Life is hard but so very beautiful

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

I can't spare this man, he fights!