Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.Abraham Lincoln
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.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
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.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
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.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
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
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love 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
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.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
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
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one.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
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.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
