Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
― Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
- Abraham Lincoln
How 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
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
– Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~Abraham Lincoln
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
― Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Achievement has no color.
― Abraham Lincoln
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
― Abraham Lincoln