Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

I Never Went To School More Than Six Months In My Life, But I Can Say This: That Among My Earliest Recollections, I Remember How, When A Mere Child, I Used To Get Irritated When Anybody Talked To Me In A Way I Could Not Understand.

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.

Towering Genius Disdains A Beaten Path. It Seeks Regions Hitherto Unexplored.

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.

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.

The Ballot Is Stronger Than The Bullet.

In Great Contests Each Party Claims To Act In Accordance With The Will Of God. Both May Be, And One Must Be Wrong.

It Is Rather For Us Here Dedicated To The Great Task Remaining Before Us, That From These Honored Dead We Take Increased Devotion To That Cause For Which They Gave The Last Full Measure Of Devotion.

I Do Not Think Much Of A Man Who Is Not Wiser Today Than He Was Yesterday.

We Find Ourselves Under The Government Of A System Of Political Institutions, Conducing More Essentially To The Ends Of Civil And Religious Liberty, Than Any Of Which The History Of Former Times Tells Us.

I Desire So To Conduct The Affairs Of This Administration That If At The End... I Have Lost Every Other Friend On Earth, I Shall At Least Have One Friend Left, And That Friend Shall Be Down Inside Of Me.

Avoid Popularity If You Would Have Peace.

Hold On With A Bulldog Grip, And Chew And Choke As Much As Possible.

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.

Some Single Mind Must Be Master, Else There Will Be No Agreement In Anything.

The People Themselves, And Not Their Servants, Can Safely Reverse Their Own Deliberate Decisions.

If The Great American People Will Only Keep Their Temper, On Both Sides Of The Line, The Troubles Will Come To An End, And The Question Which Now Distracts The Country Will Be Settled Just As Surely As All Other Difficulties Of Like Character Which Have Originated In This Government Have Been Adjusted.

Extemporaneous Speaking Should Be Practiced And Cultivated. It Is The Lawyer's Avenue To The Public. However Able And Faithful He May Be In Other Respects, People Are Slow To Bring Him Business If He Cannot Make A Speech.

When I Do Good, I Feel Good. When I Do Bad, I Feel Bad. That's My Religion.

No Policy That Does Not Rest Upon Some Philosophical Public Opinion Can Be Permanently Maintained.

Upon The Subject Of Education, Not Presuming To Dictate Any Plan Or System Respecting It, I Can Only Say That I View It As The Most Important Subject Which We, As A People, Can Be Engaged In.

It Has So Happened In All Ages Of The World That Some Have Labored, And Others Have, Without Labor, Enjoyed A Large Proportion Of The Fruits.

I Am Humble Abraham Lincoln. I Have Been Solicited By My Friends To Become A Candidate For The Legislature. My Politics Are Short And Sweet, Like The Old Woman's Dance.

We Can Succeed Only By Concert. It Is Not, 'Can Any Of Us Imagine Better,' But, 'Can We All Do Better?'

I Do Not Think I Could Myself Be Brought To Support A Man For Office Whom I Knew To Be An Open Enemy Of, And Scoffer At, Religion.

Fellow Citizens, We Cannot Escape History. We, Of This Congress And This Administration, Will Be Remembered In Spite Of Ourselves. No Personal Significance, Or Insignificance, Can Spare One Or Another Of Us. The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass Will Light Us Down In Honor Or Dishonor, To The Latest Generation.

In This Sad World Of Ours, Sorrow Comes To All; And To The Young, It Comes With Bitterest Agony Because It Takes Them Unawares. I Have Had Experience Enough To Know What I Say.

If There Should Prove To Be One Real, Living Free State Democrat In Kansas, I Suggest That It Might Be Well To Catch Him And Stuff And Preserve His Skin As An Interesting Specimen Of That Soon-to-be-extinct Variety Of The Genus Democrat.

Do I Not Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends?

I Do Not Expect The Union To Be Dissolved - I Do Not Expect The House To Fall - But I Do Expect It Will Cease To Be Divided. It Will Become All One Thing, Or All The Other.

Why Was The Amendment, Expressly Declaring The Right Of The People To Exclude Slavery, Voted Down? Plainly Enough Now, The Adoption Of It Would Have Spoiled The Niche For The Dred Scott Decision.

'A Living Dog Is Better Than A Dead Lion.' Judge Douglas, If Not A Dead Lion For This Work, Is At Least A Caged And Toothless One. How Can He Oppose The Advances Of Slavery? He Don't Care Anything About It.

I Should Like To Know If, Taking This Old Declaration Of Independence, Which Declares That All Men Are Equal Upon Principle, You Begin Making Exceptions To It, Where Will You Stop? If One Man Says It Does Not Mean A Negro, Why Not Another Say It Does Not Mean Some Other Man?

I Have Said A Hundred Times, And I Have No Inclination To Take It Back, That I Believe There Is No Right, And Ought To Be No Inclination In The People Of The Free States To Enter Into The Slave States, And To Interfere With The Question Of Slavery At All. I Have Said That Always.

I Am Naturally Anti-slavery. If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong. I Can Not Remember When I Did Not So Think And Feel.

The Point - The Power To Hurt - Of All Figures Lies In The Truthfulness Of Their Application.

I Can Express All My Views On The Slavery Question By Quotations From Henry Clay.

True Patriotism Is Better Than The Wrong Kind Of Piety.

You Can Fool All The People Some Of The Time, And Some Of The People All The Time, But You Cannot Fool All The People All The Time.

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.

Never Regret What You Don't Write.

I Am Like A Man So Busy In Letting Rooms In One End Of His House, That He Can't Stop To Put Out The Fire That Is Burning The Other.

I Have Talked With Great Men, And I Do Not See How They Differ From Others.

Upon The Subjects Of Which I Have Treated, I Have Spoken As I Have Thought. I May Be Wrong In Regard To Any Or All Of Them; But, Holding It A Sound Maxim That It Is Better Only Sometimes To Be Right Than At All Times To Be Wrong, So Soon As I Discover My Opinions To Be Erroneous, I Shall Be Ready To Renounce Them.

My Parents Were Both Born In Virginia, Of Undistinguished Families - Second Families, Perhaps I Should Say.

Biographies, As Generally Written, Are Not Only Misleading But False... In Most Instances, They Commemorate A Lie And Cheat Posterity Out Of The Truth.

It Is A Quality Of Revolutions Not To Go By Old Lines Or Old Laws, But To Break Up Both And Make New Ones.

My Paramount Object In This Struggle Is To Save The Union, And Is Not Either To Save Or To Destroy Slavery. If I Could Save The Union Without Freeing Any Slave, I Would Do It; And If I Could Save It By Freeing Some And Leaving Others Alone, I Would Also Do That.

Whether Slavery Shall Go Into Nebraska, Or Other New Territories, Is Not A Matter Of Exclusive Concern To The People Who May Go There. The Whole Nation Is Interested That The Best Use Shall Be Made Of These Territories. We Want Them For The Homes Of Free White People.

We Think The Dred Scott Decision Is Erroneous. We Know The Court That Made It Has Often Overruled Its Own Decisions, And We Shall Do What We Can To Have It Overrule This.