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.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

Abraham Lincoln