Famous Quotes

Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
• I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
• In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.