Inspiring Quotes by Abraham Lincoln - Page 2

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"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"

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

"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"

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

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

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

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

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem"

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

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

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets"

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace"

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world"

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them"

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all"

"Everybody likes a compliment"

"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old"

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition"

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

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself"

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent"

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it"

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

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure"

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"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"

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die"

"Some day I shall be President"

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

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations"

"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"

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing"

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties"

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem"

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth"

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"

"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"

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

"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"

"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible"

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make"

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