Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Be excellent and party on dudes.