Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

— 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

“In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man…

— Abraham Lincoln

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

— Abraham Lincoln

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

— Abraham Lincoln

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

— Abraham Lincoln

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind…

— Abraham Lincoln

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

— Abraham Lincoln

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly;…

— Abraham Lincoln

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great…

— Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run…

— Abraham Lincoln

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not…

— Abraham Lincoln

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

— Abraham Lincoln

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…

— Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

— Abraham Lincoln

Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

— Abraham Lincoln

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe…

— Abraham Lincoln