Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln
I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.