Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

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

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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.

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

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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.

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

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.

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.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.