Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
- Abraham Lincoln
We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
- Abraham Lincoln
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
- Abraham Lincoln
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
- Abraham Lincoln
And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
- Abraham Lincoln
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
- Abraham Lincoln
Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
- Abraham Lincoln
I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
- Abraham Lincoln