Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.Abraham Lincoln
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.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
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.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
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.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 I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.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
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.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 matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.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
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.Abraham Lincoln
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again.Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore 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
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.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
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.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
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
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
