Abraham Lincoln

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

Abraham Lincoln

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Abraham Lincoln

I couldn’t be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn’t wear this one.

Abraham Lincoln

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn’t know anything.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

Abraham Lincoln

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me…

Abraham Lincoln