"I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it."
Read quote
8 likes
Quote collection
Abraham Lincoln quotes (page 22 of 58)
1.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision."
Read quote
8 likes
"Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail."
Read quote
8 likes
"Always remember: Life is for enjoying."
Read quote
8 likes
"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms."
Read quote
8 likes
"The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible."
Read quote
8 likes
"No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive."
Read quote
8 likes
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
Read quote
8 likes
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown."
Read quote
8 likes
"In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border."
Read quote
8 likes
"At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!"
Read quote
8 likes
"There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it."
Read quote
8 likes
"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
Read quote
8 likes
"The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated."
Read quote
8 likes
"I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free."
Read quote
8 likes
"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
Read quote
8 likes
"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose."
Read quote
8 likes
"Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite"
Read quote
8 likes
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
Read quote
8 likes
"A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands."
Read quote
8 likes