Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Every head should be cultivated.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I was raised to farm work.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

Never let your correspondence fall behind.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.