Abraham Lincoln

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.