Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.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
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.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
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.Abraham Lincoln
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.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
The Lord prefers common - Looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.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
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
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.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
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln
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
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one.Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
