Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

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

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.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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