"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln
"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
Abraham Lincoln
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
Abraham Lincoln
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
Abraham Lincoln
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
Abraham Lincoln
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln