Abraham Lincoln Quotes
+24No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
+22The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
+9People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
+7Whatever you are be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
+5I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
- Abraham Lincoln
+3Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
+3Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.
- Abraham Lincoln
+3Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
+3Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
- Abraham Lincoln
+3I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
- Abraham Lincoln
+2Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
- Abraham Lincoln
+2Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln
+1It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I 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.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Teach the children so that it willnot be necessary to teach the adults.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
+1We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1How 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.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
+1I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
- Abraham Lincoln
