Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.