Lincoln Quotes

The mode is very simple, though laborious and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read and study them carefully. Work, work, work, is the main thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln

The President ... Desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service... the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine, will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
- Abraham Lincoln

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just, and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all - gives hope to all, and consequent energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest... Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief. Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday labors on his own account today and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country: the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passion, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts.
- Abraham Lincoln

They say I tell a great many stories; I reckon I do, but I have found in the course of a long experience that common people---common people---take them as they run, are more easily influenced and informed through the medium of a broad illustration than in any other way.
- Abraham Lincoln

This government, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln