Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men