Abraham Lincoln Quotes
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.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
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.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
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
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
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.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
Force is all - Conquering, but its victories are short - Lived.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
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
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.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
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
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
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.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 I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one.Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?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 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
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.Abraham Lincoln
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.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
