Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.