10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Let the people on both sides keep their self possession,

and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time,

so will this,

and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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

Some day I shall be President.

I have always hated slavery, I think,

as much as any abolitionist.

I have been an Old Line Whig.

I have always hated it,

but I have always been quiet about it until

this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance

with the will of God.

Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored,

and others have, without labor,

enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs,

there is no need of bloodshed and war.

There is no necessity for it.

I am not in favor of such a course,

and I may say in advance,

there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.

The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

Biographies,

as generally written,

are not only misleading but false...

In most instances,

they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Four score 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.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,

but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln.

I have been solicited by my friends to

become a candidate for the Legislature.

My politics are short and sweet,

like the old woman's dance.