I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?~Abraham Lincoln
Beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories.
~Abraham Lincoln
In this contest, mere men are nothing.
~Abraham Lincoln
But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
~Abraham Lincoln
To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
~Abraham Lincoln
If you can hold your present position, we shall "hive" the enemy yet.
~Abraham Lincoln
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favour of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
~Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~Abraham Lincoln
Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
~Abraham Lincoln
The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
~Abraham Lincoln
Military glory—the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
~Abraham Lincoln
I believe you to be a brave and a skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right.
~Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it.
~Abraham Lincoln