Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
- Abraham Lincoln
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
- Abraham Lincoln
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
- Abraham Lincoln
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
- Abraham Lincoln
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
- Abraham Lincoln