Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

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

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.