Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.