Abraham Lincoln

We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

Abraham Lincoln

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn’t anywhere else to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Welcome, or unwelcome, agreeable, or disagreeable, whether this shall be an entire slave nation, is the issue before us.

Abraham Lincoln

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Abraham Lincoln

What I did, I did after very full deliberation, and under a heavy and solemn sense of responsibility. I can only trust in God that I have made no mistake.

Abraham Lincoln

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Abraham Lincoln

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln

When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Abraham Lincoln

When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

Abraham Lincoln