I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — 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
Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I… — 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
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting,… — 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
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
Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they… — 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 Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — 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 Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
![“When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/776/abraham-lincoln-88_buried_when-i-left-springfield-to-become-presid_3233801.jpg)
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