Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

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

A house divided cannot stand.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.