Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Honor is better than honors.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

You cannot fail unless you quit.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.