The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as...

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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...

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as...

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up...

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world…enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time...

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts,...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

{When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine’s deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln’s political career. Historian Roy Basler, the editor of...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious...

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other...

All I have learned, I learned from books.

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

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God cannot be *for* and *against* the...

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll git me a book I ain’t read. (ca. 1825; in Sandburg, Prairie Years, I, p. 71)