--- title: "7 Expected Quotes By Abraham Lincoln" description: "7 Expected quotes by Abraham Lincoln. Plus more from Abraham Lincoln and more Expected sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec8/abraham-lincoln-88_claims_now-at-the-end-of-three-years-struggle-t_575944.png" --- > [Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/now-at-the-end-of-three-years-struggle-the-nation-s-condition-is-not/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec8/abraham-lincoln-88_claims_now-at-the-end-of-three-years-struggle-t_575944.png) > [Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/nobody-has-ever-expected-me-to-be-president-in-my-poor-lean-lank-face/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/188/abraham-lincoln-88_cabbage_nobody-has-ever-expected-me-to-be-presid_592501.jpg) > [Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/neither-party-expected-for-the-war-the-magnitude-or-the-duration/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/abraham-lincoln-88_american-civil-war_neither-party-expected-for-the-war-the-m_1729013.jpg) > [Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/most-governments-have-been-based-practically-on-the-denial-of-equal/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff3/abraham-lincoln-88_affirming_most-governments-have-been-based-practic_1804754.jpg) > [I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-claim-not-to-have-controlled-events-but-confess-plainly-that-events-2/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/abraham-lincoln-88_causes_i-claim-not-to-have-controlled-events-bu_2446313.jpg) > [Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/washington-s-is-the-mightiest-name-of-earth-long-since-mightiest-in/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/abraham-lincoln-88_add_washington-s-is-the-mightiest-name-of-ea_2766159.jpg) > [At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/at-what-point-then-is-the-approach-of-danger-to-be-expected-i-answer/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a53/abraham-lincoln-88_all-time_at-what-point-then-is-the-approach-of-da_2996651.png) ## Other authors on Expected ## More by Abraham Lincoln > [Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/elections-belong-to-the-people-it-s-their-decision-if-they-decide-to/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [ Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then \[these?\],… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in-england-in-1624-and-in-this/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/all-that-i-am-or-ever-hope-to-be-i-owe-to-my-angel-mother/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/while-the-people-retain-their-virtue-and-vigilance-no-administration/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-could-not-have-slept-tonight-if-i-had-left-that-helpless-little/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/let-us-at-all-times-remember-that-all-american-citizens-are-brothers/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-you-wish-to-be-a-lawyer-attach-no-consequence-to-the-place-you-are/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/as-we-keep-or-break-the-sabbath-day-we-nobly-save-or-meanly-lose-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/tell-the-truth-and-you-won-t-have-so-much-to-remember/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/with-high-hope-for-the-future-no-prediction-is-ventured/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/we-know-southern-men-declare-that-their-slaves-are-better-off-than/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-glad-to-see-that-a-system-of-labor-prevails-under-which-laborers/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-don-t-like-that-man-i-must-get-to-know-him-better/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/in-this-sad-world-of-ours-sorrow-comes-to-all-and-to-the-young-it/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-man-does-not-live-who-is-more-devoted-to-peace-than-i-am-none-who/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/expected/abraham-lincoln/#itemlist", "name": "7 Expected Quotes By Abraham Lincoln", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. 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