Abraham Lincoln

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. 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.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes … I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Abraham Lincoln

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln