1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

You are as happy as you make up your mind to be.