Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln


When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln


Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln


The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln


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.

Abraham Lincoln


The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln


The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Abraham Lincoln


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln


It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln


The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln


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.

Abraham Lincoln


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.

Abraham Lincoln


Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Abraham Lincoln


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln


A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln


The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

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