President · American · 1809 – 1865 · 133 quotes
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
President · American · 1809 – 1865
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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.
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.
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.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
