Name:- Abraham Lincoln
Born:- February 12, 1809
Died:- April 15, 1865
Nationality:- United States(U.S)
Occupation:- 16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I am humble” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “As our case is new, we must think and act anew.” – 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
- “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – 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 exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Never regret what you don’t write.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Everybody likes a compliment.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I am rather inclined to silence.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.” – 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
- “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
- “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Four score 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
- “I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I want it said of me 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
- “If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.” – 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
- “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.” – 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 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
- “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” – 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
- “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – 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
- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Knavery and flattery are blood relations.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”- Abraham Lincoln
- “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I can make more generals, but horses cost money.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” – 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
- “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Let’s 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
- “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
- “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
- “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” – 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
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