Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.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
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
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.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 worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.Abraham Lincoln
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.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
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.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
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
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
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.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
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?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
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
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.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 will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.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
