Abraham Lincoln quotes and sayings
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"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."