Abraham Lincoln Quotes

“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.”

“We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.”

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

“For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”

“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”

“Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander”

“All that harms labor is treason to America.”

“I am not an accomplished lawyer.”

“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.”

“When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.”

“It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.”

“I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.”

“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”

“Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.”

“I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.”

“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”

“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”

“Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.”

“Your rights end where my nose begins.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.”

“I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.”

“It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will asnaturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.”

“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”