Top 500 Abraham Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.”

— Abraham Lincoln

402. “It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.”

— Abraham Lincoln

403. “Nor must Uncle Sam’s Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”

— Abraham Lincoln

404. “Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

— Abraham Lincoln

405. “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.”

— Abraham Lincoln

406. “Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief – resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.”

— Abraham Lincoln

407. “You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

408. “Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.”

— Abraham Lincoln

409. “If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.”

— Abraham Lincoln

410. “Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.”

— Abraham Lincoln

411. “Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

— Abraham Lincoln

412. “It’s bad. It’s damned bad.”

— Abraham Lincoln

413. “The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”

— Abraham Lincoln

414. “The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.”

— Abraham Lincoln

415. “I was elected a Captain of Volunteers – a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”

— Abraham Lincoln

416. “If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”

— Abraham Lincoln

417. “Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.”

— Abraham Lincoln

418. “I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

419. “I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.”

— Abraham Lincoln

420. “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.”

— Abraham Lincoln

421. “There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’”

— Abraham Lincoln

422. “Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.”

— Abraham Lincoln

423. “And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation...”

— Abraham Lincoln

424. “If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they’d have to sleep standing up.”

— Abraham Lincoln

425. “I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.”

— Abraham Lincoln

426. “Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.”

— Abraham Lincoln

427. “A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.”

— Abraham Lincoln

428. “The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I’m part of thee.”

— Abraham Lincoln

429. “Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.”

— Abraham Lincoln

430. “To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.”

— Abraham Lincoln

431. “Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn’t anywhere else to go.”

— Abraham Lincoln

432. “Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.”

— Abraham Lincoln

433. “Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.”

— Abraham Lincoln

434. “Too big to cry too young to laugh...”

— Abraham Lincoln

435. “Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”

— Abraham Lincoln

436. “I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.”

— Abraham Lincoln

437. “If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.”

— Abraham Lincoln

438. “He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.”

— Abraham Lincoln

439. “Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”

— Abraham Lincoln

440. “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.”

— Abraham Lincoln

441. “It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.”

— Abraham Lincoln

442. “I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.”

— Abraham Lincoln

443. “Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.”

— Abraham Lincoln

444. “Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

445. “Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.”

— Abraham Lincoln

446. “May our children and our children’s children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

— Abraham Lincoln

447. “I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!”

— Abraham Lincoln

448. “With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.”

— Abraham Lincoln

449. “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.”

— Abraham Lincoln

450. “Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent’s eye, that charms to destroy...”

— Abraham Lincoln