1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.