Lincoln Quotes

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty --- none less inclined to take, or touch, ought which they have not honestly earned.
- Abraham Lincoln

Now if you will do this you will soon be out of debt and what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again.
- Abraham Lincoln

Now you must remember that some things that are legally right are not necessarily morally right.
- Abraham Lincoln

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser-in fees, expenses, and waste of time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him.
- Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free.
- Abraham Lincoln

That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln