Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

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

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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

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

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.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.