Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Whatever you are, be a good one... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books.. view

By: Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen.. view

By: Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.".. view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might.. view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth... view

By: Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues... view

By: Abraham Lincoln