Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.