Abraham Lincoln Patriotic Quotations

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

That we we here highly resolve that these 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, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.