Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already."

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

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

"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."

"I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."

"Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."

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

"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."

"Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."