Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and part of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; . . . And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Can you inform me, gentlemen, where General Grant procures his whisky? . . . Because if I can find out, I'll send a barrel of it to every General in the field!

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?