Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
- Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
- Abraham Lincoln
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot fail unless you quit.
- Abraham Lincoln
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
- Abraham Lincoln
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln