亚伯拉罕·林肯的语录已经成为美国人生活的一部分，这是有道理的。在多年担任法庭辩护人和政治竞选演说人的经验中，这位铁路分流器发展出了一种以令人难忘的方式说话的非凡技巧。

在他自己的时代，林肯经常被崇拜者引用。在现代，林肯的名言经常被引用来证明这一点或那一点。

到处流传的林肯名言往往是假的。伪造林肯名言的历史由来已久，至少一个世纪以来，人们似乎一直试图引用林肯所说的话来赢得争论。

尽管林肯的名言层出不穷，但还是有可能证实林肯确实说过的一些精彩的话。下面是一个特别好的列表：

林肯的十句名言每个人都应该知道

1.“一个自相残杀的家庭是站不住脚的。我相信这个政府不能永远忍受半奴隶半自由。”

Source: Lincoln's speech to the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois on June 16, 1858. Lincoln was running for U.S. Senate, and was expressing his differences with Senator Stephen Douglas, who often defended the institution of enslavement.

2.“我们绝不能成为敌人。尽管激情可能已经绷紧，但它绝不能打破我们的感情纽带。”

Source: Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861. Though the states that allowed enslavement had been seceding from the Union, Lincoln expressed a wish that the Civil War would not begin. The war did break out the next month.

3.“带着对任何人的恶意，带着对所有人的慈悲，带着对权利的坚定，就像上帝赋予我们看到权利一样，让我们努力完成我们正在做的工作。”

Source: Lincoln's second inaugural address, which was given on March 4, 1865, as the Civil War was coming to an end. Lincoln was referring to the imminent job of putting the Union back together after years of very bloody and costly warfare.

4.“过河时最好不要换马。”

Source: Lincoln was addressing a political gathering on June 9, 1864 while expressing his wish to run for a second term. The comment is actually based on a joke of the time, about a man crossing a river whose horse is sinking and is offered a better horse but says it isn't the time to be changing horses. The comment attributed to Lincoln has been used many times since in political campaigns.

5.“如果麦克莱伦不使用军队，我想借用一下。”

Source: Lincoln made this comment on April 9, 1862 to express his frustration with General George B. McClellan, who was commanding the Army of the Potomac and was always very slow to attack.

6.八十七年前，我们的先辈在这块大陆上建立了一个新的国家，它孕育于自由之中，致力于人人生而平等的主张

Source: The famous opening of the Gettysburg Address, delivered November 19, 1863.

7.“我不能放过这个人，他在打架。”

Source: According to Pennsylvania politician Alexander McClure, Lincoln said this regarding General Ulysses S. Grant after the Battle of Shiloh in the spring of 1862. McClure had advocated removing Grant from command, and the quote was Lincoln's way of disagreeing strongly with McClure.

8.“我在这场斗争中的最高目标是拯救联邦，而不是拯救或摧毁奴隶制。如果我能拯救联邦而不释放任何奴隶，我会这样做；如果我能通过释放所有奴隶来拯救联邦，我会这样做；如果我能通过释放一些奴隶而不去管其他奴隶来拯救联邦，我也会这样做。”

Source: A reply to editor Horace Greeley published in Greeley's newspaper, the New York Tribune, on August 19, 1862. Greeley had criticized Lincoln for moving too slowly in bringing an end to the system of enslavement. Lincoln resented pressure from Greeley, and from North American 19th-century Black activists, though he was already working on what would become the Emancipation Proclamation.

9“让我们相信权利造就力量，在这个信念中，让我们最终敢于履行我们所理解的义务。”

Source: The conclusion of Lincoln's speech at Cooper Union in New York City on February 27, 1860. The speech received extensive coverage in the New York City newspapers and instantly made Lincoln, a virtual outsider to that point, a credible candidate for the Republican nomination for president in the election of 1860.

10“我曾多次被压倒性的信念驱使跪在地上，认为我无处可去。我自己的智慧和我周围的一切似乎都不足以应付那一天。”

Source: According to journalist and Lincoln friend Noah Brooks, Lincoln said the pressures of the presidency and the Civil War had prompted him to pray on many occasions.