If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical… — 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 Copy Share Image
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to… — Abraham Lincoln 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 Copy Share Image
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
