Quotes

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
-Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
-Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
-Abraham Lincoln

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
-Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
-Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
-Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-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.
-Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
-Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
-Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
-Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
-Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
-Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
-Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
-Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
-Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
-Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
-Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
-Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
-Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
-Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
-Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow - citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
-Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
-Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-Abraham Lincoln

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln