Abraham Lincoln Quotes

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.

Well, I think a man’s legs should be exactly long enough to reach from his body to the ground

(I feel) somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh. (Reply as to how he felt about the New York elections)

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Read this book for what on reason you can accept and take the rest on faith, and you will live and die a better man.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Savior of the world is communicated to us through the Book.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

I have nor permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded in this connection of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.