Abraham Lincoln

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God’s side.

Abraham Lincoln

I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

Abraham Lincoln

I have desired as sincerely as any man – I sometimes think more than any other man – that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Abraham Lincoln

I would just as soon die now, but I haven’t done anything yet to be remembered by.

Abraham Lincoln