Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

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.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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