Lincoln on Education

"Upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in." -- Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln on perseverance

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..." -- Abraham Lincoln, from his Second Inaugural Address, 3/4/1865

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"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, sixteenth president of the United States

"If you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life." — Abraham Lincoln

"Work, work, work, is the main thing." — Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln on Individual Pursuits

"I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights." -- Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." -- Abraham Lincoln

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." -- Abraham Lincoln

"How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), via Dog News

Character | "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." — Abraham Lincoln

Coward | "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." -- Abraham Lincoln

Conservatism | "What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" -- Abraham Lincoln

Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

"What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." -- Abraham Lincoln

"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." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." -- Abraham Lincoln