Abraham Lincoln Quotes

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

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.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

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

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.