Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

Labor is the true standard of value.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.