"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." Abraham Lincoln
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." Abraham Lincoln
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Abraham Lincoln
"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help." Abraham Lincoln
"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed." Abraham Lincoln
"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." Abraham Lincoln
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." Abraham Lincoln
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." Abraham Lincoln
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| Abraham Lincoln at age 54, 1863 |
He successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator in the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1840s. After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination. With almost no support in the South he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.
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"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Abraham Lincoln
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." Abraham Lincoln
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln
"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this." Abraham Lincoln
"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back." Abraham Lincoln
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." Abraham Lincoln
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." Abraham Lincoln
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Abraham Lincoln
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have." Abraham Lincoln
"Public opinion in this country is everything." Abraham Lincoln
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." Abraham Lincoln
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." Abraham Lincoln
"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day." Abraham Lincoln
"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees." Abraham Lincoln
"Whatever you are, be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary." Abraham Lincoln
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Abraham Lincoln
"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." Abraham Lincoln
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." Abraham Lincoln
"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old." Abraham Lincoln
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." 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
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." Abraham Lincoln
"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory." Abraham Lincoln
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." Abraham Lincoln
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends." Abraham Lincoln
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." Abraham Lincoln
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." Abraham Lincoln
"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible." Abraham Lincoln
"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." Abraham Lincoln
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." Abraham Lincoln
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong." Abraham Lincoln
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." Abraham Lincoln
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause." Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." Abraham Lincoln
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar." Abraham Lincoln
"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg." Abraham Lincoln
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed." Abraham Lincoln
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." Abraham Lincoln
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" Abraham Lincoln
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." Abraham Lincoln
"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything." Abraham Lincoln
"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." 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
"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make." Abraham Lincoln
"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition." Abraham Lincoln
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person." Abraham Lincoln
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." Abraham Lincoln
"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." Abraham Lincoln
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." Abraham Lincoln
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." Abraham Lincoln
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." Abraham Lincoln
"Everybody likes a compliment." Abraham Lincoln
"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end." Abraham Lincoln
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all." Abraham Lincoln
"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed." Abraham Lincoln
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." Abraham Lincoln
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." Abraham Lincoln
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." Abraham Lincoln
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." Abraham Lincoln
"I can make more generals, but horses cost money." Abraham Lincoln
"As our case is new, we must think and act anew." Abraham Lincoln
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." Abraham Lincoln
"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." Abraham Lincoln
"Some day I shall be President." 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
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Abraham Lincoln
"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Abraham Lincoln
"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions." Abraham Lincoln
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."" Abraham Lincoln
"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them." Abraham Lincoln
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." Abraham Lincoln
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln
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