Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Abraham Lincoln Quotes: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He paved the way for greater things for future generations.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“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.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.”
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ”
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”
“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
“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 can be engaged in.”
“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has.”
“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; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
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Quotes about Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ”
“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man’s course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.”
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“I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody.”
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”
“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District, not but I would be glad to see it abolished, but as to the time and manner of doing it. ”
“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.”
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ”
“The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.”
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ”
“It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”
