Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.