Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Когда я делаю добро, я чувствую себя хорошо. Когда я поступаю плохо, я чувствую себя плохо. Вот моя религия.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be.

Sou um caminhante lento, mas nunca caminho para trás.

I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.

I am the most miserable man living. if what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbade I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

If I am killed I can die but once. But to live in constant dread is to die over and over again.

I w końcu to nie lata w twoim życiu się liczą. To życie w twoich latach

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case. What has occurred in this case must ever occur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.... Now that the election is over, may not all having a common interest reunite in a common fort to save our common country?

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semi-colon; it’s a useful little chap.

Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe