16th President of the United States
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. – Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. – Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. – Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. – Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have. – Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. – Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. – 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. – Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln
Force is all conquering, but its victories are short-lived. – Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. – Abraham Lincoln
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40. – Abraham Lincoln
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. – Abraham Lincoln
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. – Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and someday my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln
If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already – Abraham Lincoln
Everybody likes a compliment. – Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. – Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way. – Abraham Lincoln
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. – Abraham Lincoln
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. – Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – 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
If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world. – Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. – Abraham Lincoln
Achievement has no color. – Abraham Lincoln
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world. – Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
These men ask for just the same thing: fairness, and fairness only. This is, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. – Abraham Lincoln
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. – Abraham Lincoln
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase. – Abraham Lincoln
I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that His hand is in it. If he has a place and work for me and I think He has I believe I am ready. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people – Abraham Lincoln
Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. – Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are in. – Abraham Lincoln
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. – Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run. – 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
We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous. – Abraham Lincoln
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan. – Abraham Lincoln
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. – Albert Einstein
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in. – Abraham Lincoln
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