Abraham Lincoln Quotes

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Honor is better than honors.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.