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Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in defeating the insurgent Confederacy, abolishing slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
Quotes
| Everybody likes a compliment. |
| Some day I shall be President. |
| Whatever you are, be a good one. |
| I am rather inclined to silence. |
| Never regret what you don’t write. |
| Life is hard but so very beautiful. |
| The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
| Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream. |
| All I have learned, I learned from books. |
| I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. |
| I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. |
| Avoid popularity if you would have peace. |
| Knavery and flattery are blood relations. |
| If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. |
| I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. |
| A house divided against itself cannot stand. |
| I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. |
| As our case is new, we must think and act anew. |
| Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility. |
| I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
| I can make more generals, but horses cost money. |
| If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? |
| I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. |
| Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. |
| Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. |
| To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. |
| The best way to predict the future is to create it. |
| The best way to predict your future is to create it. |
| A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet. |
| What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. |
| Every person’s happiness is their own responsibility. |
| Every man’s responsibility is his own responsibility. |
| I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. |
| A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. |
| He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. |
| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. |
| All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. |
| True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. |
| No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. |
| Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? |
| Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. |
| Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. |
| I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. |
| Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. |
| Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? |
| You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. |
| When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
| Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. |
| Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. |
| I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. |
| Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. |
| Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. |
| We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. |
| Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. |
| You can tell the greatness of someone by what makes them angry. |
| The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. |
| There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. |
| A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. |
| The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. |
| My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. |
| I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. |
| Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. |
| You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
| A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. |
| If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. |
| Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. |
| I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. |
| No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent. |
| You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. |
| No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent. |
| I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today that he was yesterday. |
| No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. |
| With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. |
| I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. |
| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. |
| Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me. |
| I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. |
| I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. |
| When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. |
| When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion. |
| Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. |
| It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. |
| Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. |
| I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. |
| I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. |
| It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. |
| The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. |
| Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. |
| Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. |
| Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. |
| The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. |
| I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. |
| Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. |
| Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. |
| I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. |
| Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. |
| In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. |
| That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. |
| If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. |
| In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years. |
