Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.