Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.