Father Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

— Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

— Abraham Lincoln

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

— Abraham Lincoln

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

— Abraham Lincoln

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as…

— Abraham Lincoln

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness…

— Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I…

— Abraham Lincoln

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to…

— Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it.…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public…

— Abraham Lincoln

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave…

— Abraham Lincoln

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are…

— Abraham Lincoln

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the…

— Abraham Lincoln

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my…

— Abraham Lincoln

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild…

— Abraham Lincoln

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing…

— Abraham Lincoln

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not…

— Abraham Lincoln

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to…

— Abraham Lincoln