Abraham Lincoln Quotes
+28The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
+20No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
+3Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- 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
+1Whatever you are be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Understanding the spirit of our institutions is to aim at the elevation of men; I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
- 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
+1Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.
- 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