1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

One is a majority if he is right.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.