Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?… Truth and… justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in the business, he thought he was ruined – that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he […]

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.