Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.