Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Sir, 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.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.