Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
- Abraham Lincoln
All I have learned, I learned from books.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
- Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
- Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln