Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

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

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

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

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

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

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Everybody likes a compliment.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

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

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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