Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years

Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior... Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable--nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

this too shall pass

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

On peut tromper une partie du peuple tout le temps et tout le peuple une partie du temps, mais on ne peut pas tromper tout le peuple tout le temps.

T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically re-signed their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

When you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro, when you have put him down, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you

Halte dir jeden Tag dreißig Minuten für deine Sorgen frei und mache in dieser Zeit ein Nickerchen.

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal...

Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.