My favorite Lincoln's Quotes

God and Religion
1. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

2. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

3. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

4. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

5. With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

6. There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

7. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Life and Man
1. Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

2. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

3. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

5. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

6. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

7. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

8. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

9. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

10. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

11. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

12. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

13. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

14. 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.