Lincoln Quotes

This is a world of compensation, and he would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln

To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and I have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. 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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln

We are as happy as we make up our minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

We must extinguish our resentment if we expect harmony and union.
- Abraham Lincoln

We ought to treat the Bible with equal fairness. I decided a long time ago that it was less difficult to believe that the Bible was what it claimed to be than to disbelieve it. It is a good book for us to obey. It contains the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, and other rules which ought to be followed.
- Abraham Lincoln

What is the true condition of the laborer? I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
- Abraham Lincoln

When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition for labor, for his whole life.
- Abraham Lincoln