Popular Quotes Through Time

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in

It is for us the living ... to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed ... to live by the light that I have.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies... the mystic chords of memory... will swell the chorus of the Union... touched by the better angels of our nature.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I wish all men to be free.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty ... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Property is the fruit of labor... Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.