Abraham Lincoln Quotes (Author of The Gettysburg Address) (page 4 of 19)

Quotes from Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (from 1861 until his assassination in 1865) :

“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift up the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...”


More on President Lincoln:
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