1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.