Abraham Lincoln the President, biography, facts and quotes

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"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"

"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have"

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people"

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him"

"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed"

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read"

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet"

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use"

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well"

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves"

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality"

"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong"

"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything"

"Some day I shall be President"

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other"

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure"

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind"

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me"

"A house divided against itself cannot stand"

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have"

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty"

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just"

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed"

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men"

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time"

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar"

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee"

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business"

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say"

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly"

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth"

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees"

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored"

"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar"

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be"

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it"

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built"

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations"

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues"

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years"

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong"

Occup.	President
From	USA
Born	February 12, 1809
Died	April 15, 1865
Aged	56 years

Abraham Lincoln Biography

115 Famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln