Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION;...

In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.

And this, too, shall pass away.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.