"It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay."
Read quote
18 likes
Quote collection
Abraham Lincoln quotes (page 13 of 58)
1.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
Read quote
18 likes
"Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn."
Read quote
18 likes
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Read quote
18 likes
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
Read quote
18 likes
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
Read quote
18 likes
"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
Read quote
18 likes
"We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it."
Read quote
17 likes
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn."
Read quote
17 likes
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
Read quote
17 likes
"I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity."
Read quote
17 likes
"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool."
Read quote
17 likes
"Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency."
Read quote
17 likes
"We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein."
Read quote
17 likes
"But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
Read quote
17 likes
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Read quote
17 likes
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
Read quote
17 likes
"the better angels of our nature"
Read quote
17 likes
"I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side."
Read quote
16 likes
"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."
Read quote
16 likes