Abraham Lincoln Quotes

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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.

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.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

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

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Some day I shall be President.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.