Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.