1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.