Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

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

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.