Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

If you love something, set it free.

Achievement has no color

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

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.

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.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.