Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
- Abraham Lincoln
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
- Abraham Lincoln
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
- Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
- Abraham Lincoln