Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Eye Quotes, Dark Quotes

If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

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

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