Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Never change horses in midstream.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.