Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on the pathway winding to the threshold. Inside this portal dwells new strength in the security, serenity, and radiance of those I love above life itself. Here two will build new dreams--dreams that tomorrow will come true. The world over, these are the thoughts at eventide when footsteps turn ever homeward. In the haven of the hearthside is rest and peace and comfort.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.