The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- Abraham Lincoln

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
- Abraham Lincoln

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln

We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
- Abraham Lincoln

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
- Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.
- Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
- Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln