I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.
- Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,–honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
- Abraham Lincoln

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
- Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
- Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
- Abraham Lincoln