Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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

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

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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 do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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.

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.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Everybody likes a compliment.

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

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.