Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.