Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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 life.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

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

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'