More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."