Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. “Why do you try to make friends of them?” asked an associate. “You should try to destroy them.” “Am I not destroying my enemies,” Lincoln gently replied, “when I make them my friends?”
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that “it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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 things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
He has a right to criticize, who has the heart to help.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
The Democracy of to-day holds the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
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.
Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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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.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.
Prohibition… goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes… A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.
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.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive–all would have perished by want of subsistence.
Inspirational Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Life
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.
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 up to what light I have.
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
Funny Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Be excellent and party on dudes.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Democracy
Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Success Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Love
With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Civil War
There is really no crisis except an artificial one…If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Education
When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three…. The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Leadership
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln quote: No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Internet
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Freedom
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Axe
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Power
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes a House Divided
A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Hard Work
Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants and honey-bees provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors, but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Politics
Public opinion in this country is everything.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Mother
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Motivational Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Future
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Friendship
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, “I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
