Abraham Lincoln Quotes
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.Abraham Lincoln
Lets 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 excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.Abraham Lincoln
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.Abraham Lincoln
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.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 am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.Abraham Lincoln
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?Abraham Lincoln
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.Abraham Lincoln
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln
Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?Abraham Lincoln
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.Abraham Lincoln
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.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.Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
