You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Abstract Copy Share Image
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness. — Abraham Lincoln American civil war Copy Share Image
The severest justice may not always be the best policy — Abraham Lincoln Being the best Copy Share Image
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln American civil war Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln Life Copy Share Image
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh,… — Abraham Lincoln Comedy Copy Share Image
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or… — Abraham Lincoln Congress Copy Share Image
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the… — Abraham Lincoln Altars Copy Share Image
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Almighty Copy Share Image
I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will… — Abraham Lincoln Belief Copy Share Image
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but… — Abraham Lincoln Book Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Battle Copy Share Image
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and… — Abraham Lincoln Animal Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Best way Copy Share Image
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image