Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln led the United States through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 1 January 1863. He was shot on 14 April 1865 and died the next morning. A large number of sayings online are credited to him without a source, so only wording traceable to a speech or letter belongs here.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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.