] "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the
] attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for
] any other business. I do the very best I know how - the
] very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the
] end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said
] against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me
] out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no
] difference."
 . . .
] "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for
] themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain
] it."
 . . .
] "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the
] reason the Lord makes so many of them."
 . . .
] "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming
] conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that
] of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
 . . .
] "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy
] present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must
] rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think
] anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we
] shall save our country." Lincoln's Second Annual Message to
] Congress, December 1, 1862.
 . . .
] "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; to
] care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow
] and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
] and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
] Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

A Collection of Abraham Lincoln Quotes