Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

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

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”