Lincoln Quotes
... I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
- Abraham Lincoln ...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall --- But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or the other.
- Abraham Lincoln
Act well your part, there all the honor lies, He who does SOMETHING at the head of a regiment will eclipse him who does NOTHING at the head of a hundred.
- Abraham Lincoln
All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
- Abraham Lincoln
As a peace maker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my ideal of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
As the patriots of '76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor.
- Abraham Lincoln
At all events, I must keep some consciousness of being somewhere near right. I must keep some standard or principle fixed within myself.
- Abraham Lincoln
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