Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Abraham Lincoln

Writing is the great invention of the world.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his wid...

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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read,...

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will rea...

Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

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Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

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I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, ...

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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Author Bio

  • NameAbraham Lincoln
  • DescriptionUS President
  • AliasesAbe Lincoln; Lincoln; Honest Abe
  • BornFebruary 12, 1809
  • DiedApril 15, 1865
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Postmaster; Lawyer; Statesman