Lincoln Quotations

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be”

“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our
duty as we understand it”


“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me”


“You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time”


“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”


“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations”