Abraham Lincoln Hers Quotations

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

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.