Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.
Abraham Lincoln
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
Abraham Lincoln
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
Abraham Lincoln
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'
Abraham Lincoln
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.
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With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
Let us have faith that Right makes Might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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 the time.
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. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
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 their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.
Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may and must be flexible.
Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Abraham Lincoln
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man over forty is responsible for his face.
Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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 the time.
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. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend" it.
Abraham Lincoln
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
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I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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 life.
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.
Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln