Abraham Lincoln the President, biography, facts and quotes

"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"

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

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible"

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

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

"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 of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"

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

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

"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"

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better"

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough"

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets"

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice"

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

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

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day"

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

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

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was"

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

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it"

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"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"

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong"

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them"

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew"

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle"

"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"

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come"

"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known"

"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"

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward"

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life"

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

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

Abraham Lincoln Biography

115 Famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln