Abraham Lincoln Quotes
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
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
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.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
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord 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
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
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
Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love 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
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.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
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.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
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.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
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.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
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
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.Abraham Lincoln
