1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

A house divided cannot stand.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

[August] 17th. [1859] At Cincinnati.This is the first time in my life that I have appeared before an audience in so great a city as this. I therefore--though I am no longer a young man-- make this appearance under some degree of embarrassment. But I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking or thinking about it, and go at something else.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.