Abraham Lincoln

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Abraham Lincoln

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

Abraham Lincoln

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh – anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Abraham Lincoln

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Abraham Lincoln

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Abraham Lincoln

My purpose is to be, in my action, just and constitutional; and yet practical, in performing the important duty, with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity, and the free principles of our common country.

Abraham Lincoln