Quotes by : Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend....

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the....

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many....

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if....

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in....

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.