Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

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.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.