Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.