Lincoln Quotes

Besides, it will cost you much more money to collect the debt than the size of the debt.
- Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed by my fellow man, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln

Get the books and read and study them till you understand them in their principles: that is the main thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

He from whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared and will be duly promulgated.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am convinced of the truth of the Christian religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book (the Bible) upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier and better man.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln

I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
- Abraham Lincoln

I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. I can remember going to my little bedroom, after hearing the neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no small part of the night...trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their, to me, dark sayings...I was not satisfied until I had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me.... I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it east, bounded it south, and bounded it west.
- Abraham Lincoln