Abraham Lincoln Duty Quotations

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. 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.