Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

Our down East friends, did, indeed, treat me with great kindness, demonstrating what I before believed, that all good, intelligent people are very much alike.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten—the only time I have been beaten by the people.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.