Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Some day I shall be President.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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

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

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.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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

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

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.