Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful or till i die or am conquered or my term expires or congress or the country forsakes mea capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others it is the key or one of the keys to the already solved problems and not only so it gives a relish and facility for successfully pursuing the yet unsolved ones.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Let us at all times remember that all american citizens are brothers of a common country and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.