Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

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

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.

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.

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.

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 care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.