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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

— Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

— Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

— Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except Negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer immigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

— Abraham Lincoln