Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

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

A house divided cannot stand.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...