With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

— Abraham Lincoln

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

— Abraham Lincoln

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

— Abraham Lincoln