Abraham Lincoln Quotes

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

• sadness

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm.

• principle

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.

• reading
• books

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

• silence

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if He had ever made another class that He intended should do all the work and no eating, He would have made them with hands and no mouths.

• work
• welfare
• fairness

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

• lies

Volume adds nothing to credibility.

• speech
• reputation

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

• Americans

Perhaps I am not a good judge of these things, but in my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against a just government in defense of an unjust institution that makes slaves of men whom God made free is not the genuine article. The religion that reconciles men to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces is not the kind to get to heaven on.

• slavery