Quote

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Abraham Lincoln

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
Farmer
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Postmaster
Statesperson
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Honest Abe
A. Lincoln
President Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Lincoln
Uncle Abe
Greater
Tasks
Friends
Fail
Whether
Succeed
Upon
Failing
Rested
Cannot
Return
Attended
May
Divine
Assistance
Ever
Leave
Washington
Without
Knowing
Task

More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Image
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
People are just as happy as they choose to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We hope all danger may be overcome but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Democracy is government of, by and for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
Abraham Lincoln
Image
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln