Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States (1861-65)
Lived: 1809-1865
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with
anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with
him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all
future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no
successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such
appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs."
- Abraham Lincoln
"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 world we
are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
- Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address, 1865.
"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."
- Abraham Lincoln
"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who can't make a mistake can't make anything."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who
enacts laws."
- President Abraham Lincoln
Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all
future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no
successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such
appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
- Abraham Lincoln
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men"
- Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
