Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States, and has been remembered as "Great Emancipator" because he ended slavery in the United States.
亚伯拉罕 林肯（1809年—1865年）美国第16任美国总统。总统任内废除奴隶制，因而被誉为"伟大的解放者"。
2064. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. 中文 / Chinese：
我曾经被压倒的信念令我跪下而我不知所措。我的智慧，似乎并不足够。
2065. I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all. 中文 / Chinese：
我笑因为我不可以哭。就是这样。就是这样。
2066. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong. 中文 / Chinese：
我一定要站在正确的一方和在他做错时离去。
2067. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. 中文 / Chinese：
我从没有一个政策；我只不过尝试每一天做到最好。
2068. I say ‘try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed. 中文 / Chinese：
“尝试”，我说。假如我们从不尝试，我们永远不会成功。
2069. I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing. 中文 / Chinese：
我不会做我能力可及的更多，我会做我所能做的去挽救政府，这是我宣誓的职责兼且是我个人的本意。我不会做任何恶念的事。我所要处理的太巨大而不能用恶念处理。
2070. If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same. 中文 / Chinese：
假如我被选中我会感恩；假如不是，它会是一样。
2023. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. 中文 / Chinese：
我可以明白为什麽当人向下望地球时相信无神论，但我不能够明白为何当人向上望而说上帝并不存在。
2024. I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me. 中文 / Chinese：
我不指摘任何反对我的人的动机。
2025. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. 中文 / Chinese：
我把我懂得的做到最好 - 尽一切能力；而我打算继续做到最後。
2026. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. 中文 / Chinese：
我不相信法律防止一个人置富；它会做成伤害多过得益。
2027. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who my grandson will be. 中文 / Chinese：
我不知道我的袓父是谁；我甚关注我的孙子会是谁。
2028. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. 中文 / Chinese：
我对一个没有比昨天明智的人不太欣赏。
2029. I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. 中文 / Chinese：
我梦到美国会有一天再被认为是世上最好的最後希望。
2030. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. 中文 / Chinese：
我总是觉得仁慈比严法更有效。
1994. Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. 中文 / Chinese：
快乐日子是当所有欲念受到控制，所有毒药受到压制，所有事情有所依据，有著征服一切的思想。这样你会快乐和统治这世界。
1995. 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. 中文 / Chinese：
当选择了路线，没有诡计和纯净的意图，让我们重定对上帝的信念，带著雄赳赳的心和不害怕地向前行。
1996. Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. 中文 / Chinese：
人类的行为在有限度的情况下可以改变，但人类的本质不能被改变。
1997. I am always for the man who wishes to work. 中文 / Chinese：
我永远支持那些愿意做工的人。
1998. I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise. 中文 / Chinese：
我不担心你跌倒。我担心你爬起来。
1999. I am naturally anti-slavery. 中文 / Chinese：
我生来就反对奴隶制度。
2000. I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. 中文 / Chinese：
我五分钟製造一个将军但一匹马是难以代替。
1964. Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. 中文 / Chinese：
不要担心；一天吃叁餐；说祷文；对债权人有礼貌；保持消化良好；运动；放慢和放松。或许你需要其他事情令你快乐，但是，我的朋友，这些我认为会对你有帮助。
1965. Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. 中文 / Chinese：
不要干预宪法里的任何事。一定要维持它，因为它是我们的自由唯一的保障。
1966. Every man over forty is responsible for his face. 中文 / Chinese：
每一个超过四十的男人要对自己的面孔负责。
1967. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. 中文 / Chinese：
武力可击败一切，但它的胜利是短暂的。
1968. Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. 中文 / Chinese：
自由不是想做任何事情的权利，但是应做的权利。
1969. Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. 中文 / Chinese：
自由是地球最後，最好的希望。
1970. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. 中文 / Chinese：
上帝不能同一时间同意和反对同样事物。
1971. Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost. 中文 / Chinese：
半完成品通常显示著劳动力损失。
1909. Avoid popularity if you would have peace. 中文 / Chinese：
假如你想平静，避享盛名。
1910. Bad promises are better broken than kept. 中文 / Chinese：
坏的承诺，破坏比履行好。
1911. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. 中文 / Chinese：
你要肯定你的脚站在对的地方，然後站稳。
1912. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. 中文 / Chinese：
保持沈默而被认为愚蠢，比起说话去消除所有疑虑为好。
1913. Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. 中文 / Chinese：
承诺转变一个承诺成为现实。
1914. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. 中文 / Chinese：
当心鲁莽，但要有活力，不眠的警惕，向前走，和给我们的胜利。
1915. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. 中文 / Chinese：
性格像一颗树和名望是它的影子。我们想得到影子；但树才是真实的。
1916. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. 中文 / Chinese：
决定了一件要做的事情，我们就会找到方法。
1917. Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. 中文 / Chinese：
不要担心你不被认同，但努力去做一个值得认同的人。
1895. I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. 中文 / Chinese：
我今天成功是因为我有一个朋友相信而我不忍心辜负他。
1896. A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. 中文 / Chinese：
朋友是一个跟你有同样敌人的人。
1897. A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 中文 / Chinese：
人民的政府，源自人民和为了人民，不可在世上消失。
1898. According to our ancient faith, the just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed. 中文 / Chinese：
根据我们古代的信念，政府公平的力量起源于被统治人们所同意的。
1899. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life. 中文 / Chinese：
坚持著你的宗旨，你很快会感到好了。相反地，假如你畏缩，放弃，你会失去坚持的能力，及後悔一生。
1900. Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. 中文 / Chinese：
再一次，法律可能合乎宪法和权宜的，然而在履行时会出现不公平的和有偏私的情况。
1901. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 中文 / Chinese：
美国永不会被外界所摧毁。假如我们畏缩和失去自由，我们会毁灭自己。
997. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
中文 / Chinese：
到最後，不是人生的年数有价值。而是那些年过的生活。
998. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
中文 / Chinese：
那些获得伟大的成就，是證明到其他人也能做到。
999. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
中文 / Chinese：
我想看见一个人为他住的地方自豪。我想看见一个地方为他居住著自豪。
1000. Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
中文 / Chinese：
拿著书本，坐在任何地方，自己去读它们。
1001. When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
中文 / Chinese：
当我準备好跟别人讲话，我花叁份二时间想他们想听什麽和叁份一时间想关於我想讲什麽。
1002. I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
中文 / Chinese：
我宁愿寂寂无名，好过做邪恶某人。
1003. You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
中文 / Chinese：
要知道一个人的伟大看什麽令他生气。
1004. Everybody likes a compliment.
中文 / Chinese：
每人都喜欢恭维话。
988. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. 中文 / Chinese：
你抱负不凡，在合理範围内，好多过坏。
989. Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. 中文 / Chinese：
今天可以做的事情不要到明天。
990. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. 中文 / Chinese：
差不多所有人都可以对抗逆境，但如果你想要测试一个人的人格，给予他权力。
991. The best way to predict your future is to create it. 中文 / Chinese：
预测将来最好的方法是创造它。
992. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. 中文 / Chinese：
我把我知道的做到最好，用我最大的努力，和我打算一直做到完结。
993. Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. 中文 / Chinese：
那些要在人里寻找坏的会肯定找到。
994. Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility. 中文 / Chinese：
每一个人的快乐是他自己的责任。
995. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. 中文 / Chinese：
将来有一个好处是它一天一天的到来。
996. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. 中文 / Chinese：
每当我听到任何人为奴隶制度争论，我有一个强烈的衝动想看看他亲身体验一下。
812. Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. 中文 / Chinese：
我们的政府以民意为基础。谁可以改变民意，就可以改变政府，事实正是这样。
813. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. 中文 / Chinese：
明白地说，脱离论的主要概念，是混乱的本质。
814. Welcome, or unwelcome, agreeable, or disagreeable, whether this shall be an entire slave nation, is the issue before us. 中文 / Chinese：
欢迎，或不欢迎，同意，或不同意，整个国家应否采用奴隶制度，是我们当前要商讨的问题。
815. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's. 中文 / Chinese：
世上没有任何地方有一个这样自由和平等的政府。我们之中有谦虚和贫穷的支撑著高特权和高职位。现在我在白宫，你跟我父亲一样，子女们有著同样好的机会。
816. I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. 中文 / Chinese：
我相信这个政府不可以忍受，永远地半奴隶和半自由。我不相信联邦会解散 — 我不预期议会瓦解 — 但我预期分歧会终止。
296. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. 中文 / Chinese：
没有人有足够好的记忆做一个成功的骗子。
297. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. 中文 / Chinese：
你今天逃避不了明天的责任。
298. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. 中文 / Chinese：
你可以经常欺骗某一些人，或有时欺骗所有人，但你不能经常欺骗所有人。
299. Every person's happiness is their own responsibility. 中文 / Chinese：
每一个人的快乐是他们自己的责任。
300. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. 中文 / Chinese：
给我六小时斩下一颗树，我会用首四小时去磨利斧头。
301. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. 中文 / Chinese：
我关心的不是你曾否失败，而是你是否满意你的失败。
302. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. 中文 / Chinese：
我不想成为奴隶，所以我不想成为主人。这表达了我的民主概念。
303. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. 中文 / Chinese：
我不喜欢那人。我一定要更深入认识他。
304. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. 中文 / Chinese：
重要性的原则一定不能灵活。
1. My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. 中文 / Chinese：
我关心的不是上帝是否站在我们这边，我最关心的是我们是否站在祂那边，因为祂永远是对的。
2. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. 中文 / Chinese：
我的一切，或是我渴望成为的那个人，我都欠我的天使母亲。
3. Why do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" 中文 / Chinese：
化敌为友，为甚麽不等於消灭敌人？
4. Whatever you are, be a good one.
中文 / Chinese：
无论你是什麽，做个好的。
5. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
中文 / Chinese：
那些否定其他人自由的人不应拥有自由；还有，在公正的上帝下，不会长久拥有。
6. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
中文 / Chinese：
我是个慢行的人，但是我从不走回头路。
7. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
中文 / Chinese：
我不是理应会赢，但我必定要真诚。我不是理应会成功，但我必定要活出我拥有的光釆。
8. I will prepare and some day my chance will come. 中文 / Chinese：
我会準备，有一天我的机会会来临。
