--- title: "17 Land Quotes By Abraham Lincoln" description: "17 Land quotes by Abraham Lincoln. Plus more from Abraham Lincoln and more Land sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/253/abraham-lincoln-88_land_laws-change-people-die-the-land-remains_110393.png" --- > [Laws change; people die; the land remains.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/laws-change-people-die-the-land-remains/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/253/abraham-lincoln-88_land_laws-change-people-die-the-land-remains_110393.png) > [One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/one-generation-passeth-away-and-another-generation-cometh-but-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/abraham-lincoln-88_dies_one-generation-passeth-away-and-another_1694213.png) > [The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-greatest-fine-art-of-the-future-will-be-the-making-of-a/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff6/abraham-lincoln-88_art_the-greatest-fine-art-of-the-future-will_504003.png) > [The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-land-the-earth-god-gave-to-man-for-his-home-should-never-be-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/abraham-lincoln-88_air_the-land-the-earth-god-gave-to-man-for-h_216498.png) > [Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/intelligence-patriotism-christianity-and-a-firm-reliance-on-him-who/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/abraham-lincoln-88_best-christian_intelligence-patriotism-christianity-and_1901523.png) > [The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-land-grant-university-system-is-being-built-on-behalf-of-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/187/abraham-lincoln-88_behalf_the-land-grant-university-system-is-bein_2682957.png) > [An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/an-allusion-has-been-made-to-the-homestead-law-i-think-it-worthy-of/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ea/abraham-lincoln-88_allusion_an-allusion-has-been-made-to-the-homeste_749071.jpg) > [The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-mystic-chords-of-memory-stretching-from-every-battle-field-and/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/abraham-lincoln-88_angel_the-mystic-chords-of-memory-stretching-f_1270999.jpg) > [It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/it-is-not-our-frowning-battlements-or-the-strength-our-gallant-and/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/abraham-lincoln-88_army_it-is-not-our-frowning-battlements-or-th_2806078.png) > [If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-as-the-friends-of-colonization-hope-the-present-and-coming/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0b/abraham-lincoln-88_captives_if-as-the-friends-of-colonization-hope-t_1436394.jpg) > [...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/let-us-discard-all-this-quibbling-about-this-man-and-the-other-man/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/865/abraham-lincoln-88_declaring_let-us-discard-all-this-quibbling-about_2570880.png) > [Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/its-authors-meant-it-to-be-a-stumbling-block-to-those-who-in-after/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/abraham-lincoln-88_block_its-authors-meant-it-to-be-a-stumbling-b_759603.jpg) > [Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/accounts-of-outrages-committed-by-mobs-form-the-every-day-news-of-the/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ee/abraham-lincoln-88_accounts_accounts-of-outrages-committed-by-mobs-f_1725241.png) > [ Senator \[Stephen\] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/senator-stephen-douglas-is-of-world-wide-renown-all-the-anxious/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad4/abraham-lincoln-88_anxious_senator-stephen-douglas-is-of-world-wide_2804348.png) > [What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/what-constitutes-the-bulwark-of-our-liberty-and-independence-it-is/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/abraham-lincoln-88_army_what-constitutes-the-bulwark-of-our-libe_2744856.png) > [And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/and-i-do-further-recommend-to-my-fellow-citizens-aforesaid-that-on/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/185/abraham-lincoln-88_blessing_and-i-do-further-recommend-to-my-fellow_560196.png) > [The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/the-prudent-penniless-beginner-in-the-world-labors-for-wages-awhile/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/abraham-lincoln-88_accounts_the-prudent-penniless-beginner-in-the-wo_1175444.jpg) ## Other authors on Land ## 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/land/abraham-lincoln/#itemlist", "name": "17 Land Quotes By Abraham Lincoln", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Laws change; people die; the land remains.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abraham Lincoln" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/laws-change-people-die-the-land-remains/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/253/abraham-lincoln-88_land_laws-change-people-die-the-land-remains_110393.png", "contentUrl": 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