Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln Quote of the day

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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.

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

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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

God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.

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

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness, ’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

There are no bad pictures

I don't know who my grandfather was

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

A farce or comedy is best played

Don’t criticize them

Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius

Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time