Abraham Lincoln Quotes And Sayings

I Go For All Sharing The Privileges Of The Government, Who Assist In Bearing Its Burdens. Consequently, I Go For Admitting All Whites To The Right Of Suffrage, Who Pay Taxes Or Bear Arms (By No Means Excluding Females).

Four Score 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.

The People Know Their Rights, And They Are Never Slow To Assert And Maintain Them When They Are Invaded.

I Pass My Life In Preventing The Storm From Blowing Down The Tent, And I Drive In The Pegs As Fast As They Are Pulled Up.

That Our Government Should Have Been Maintained In Its Original Form From Its Establishment Until Now Is Not Much To Be Wondered At. It Had Many Props To Support It Through That Period, Which Now Are Decayed And Crumbled Away. Through That Period, It Was Felt By All To Be An Undecided Experiment; Now, It Is Understood To Be A Successful One.

Oh, Yes; You Virginians Shed Barrels Of Perspiration While Standing Off At A Distance And Superintending The Work Your Slaves Do For You. It Is Different With Us. Here It Is Every Fellow For Himself, Or He Doesn't Get There.

A Woman Is The Only Thing I Am Afraid Of That I Know Will Not Hurt Me.

If A Man Had More Than One Life, I Think A Little Hanging Would Not Hurt This One; But After He Is Once Dead, We Cannot Bring Him Back, No Matter How Sorry We May Be; So The Boy Shall Be Pardoned.

When Southern People Tell Us They Are No More Responsible For The Origin Of Slavery Than We Are, I Acknowledge The Fact. When It Is Said That The Institution Exists, And That It Is Very Difficult To Get Rid Of It In Any Satisfactory Way, I Can Understand And Appreciate The Saying.

Don't Swap Horses In Crossing A Stream.

Concede That The New Government Of Louisiana Is Only To What It Should Be, As The Egg Is To The Fowl; We Shall Sooner Have The Fowl By Hatching The Egg Than By Smashing It.

No Man Has A Good Enough Memory To Be A Successful Liar.

A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.

A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand.

I Have Great Respect For The Semicolon; It Is A Mighty Handy Little Fellow.

Gold Is Good In Its Place; But Loving, Brave, Patriotic Men Are Better Than Gold.

By What Principle Of Original Right Is It That One-fiftieth Or One-ninetieth Of A Great Nation, By Calling Themselves A State, Have The Right To Break Up And Ruin That Nation As A Matter Of Original Principle?

In My View Of The Present Aspect Of Affairs, There Is No Need Of Bloodshed And War. There Is No Necessity For It. I Am Not In Favor Of Such A Course, And I May Say In Advance, There Will Be No Blood Shed Unless It Be Forced Upon The Government. The Government Will Not Use Force Unless Force Is Used Against It.

I Have Always Been An Old-line Henry Clay Whig.

I Was Born And Have Ever Remained In The Most Humble Walks Of Life.

If I Like A Thing, It Just Sticks After Once Reading It Or Hearing It.

It Is A Great Piece Of Folly To Attempt To Make Anything Out Of My Early Life.

I Perhaps Ought To Say That Individually I Never Was Much Interested In The Texas Question. I Never Could See Much Good To Come Of Annexation, Inasmuch As They Were Already A Free Republican People On Our Own Model.

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.

I Believe This Government Cannot Endure Permanently, Half Slave And Half Free.

Nothing New Here, Except My Marrying, Which To Me Is A Matter Of Profound Wonder.

I Think That Slavery Is Wrong, Morally, Socially And Politically. I Desire That It Should Be No Further Spread In These United States, And I Should Not Object If It Should Gradually Terminate In The Whole Union.

Either The Opponents Of Slavery Will Arrest The Further Spread Of It And Place It Where The Public Mind Shall Rest In The Belief That It Is In Course Of Ultimate Extinction, Or Its Advocates Will Push It Forward, Till It Shall Become Alike Lawful In All The States - Old As Well As New - North As Well As South.

Among The Friends Of Union, There Is Great Diversity Of Sentiment And Of Policy In Regard To Slavery And The African Race Among Us.

It Was That Which Gave Promise That In Due Time The Weights Should Be Lifted From The Shoulders Of All Men, And That All Should Have An Equal Chance. This Is The Sentiment Embodied In That Declaration Of Independence.

Being Elected To Congress, Though I Am Very Grateful To Our Friends For Having Done It, Has Not Pleased Me As Much As I Expected.

If You Think You Can Slander A Woman Into Loving You, Or A Man Into Voting For You, Try It Till You Are Satisfied.

He Who Would Be No Slave Must Consent To Have No Slave. Those Who Deny Freedom To Others Deserve It Not For Themselves And, Under A Just God, Cannot Long Retain It.

I Remember My Mother's Prayers And They Have Always Followed Me. They Have Clung To Me All My Life.

I Go To Assume A Task More Difficult Than That Which Devolved Upon Washington. Unless The Great God, Who Assisted Him, Shall Be With Me And Aid Me, I Must Fail; But If The Same Omniscient Mind And Almighty Arm That Directed And Protected Him Shall Guide And Support Me, I Shall Not Fail - I Shall Succeed.

Most Folks Are As Happy As They Make Up Their Minds To Be.

Those Who Deny Freedom To Others Deserve It Not For Themselves; And Under The Rule Of A Just God, Cannot Long Retain It.

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.

No Man Is Good Enough To Govern Another Man Without The Other's Consent.

It Has Been My Experience That Folks Who Have No Vices Have Very Few Virtues.

I Am A Slow Walker, But I Never Walk Back.

Always Bear In Mind That Your Own Resolution To Succeed Is More Important Than Any Other.

America Will Never Be Destroyed From The Outside. If We Falter And Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves.

Don't Interfere With Anything In The Constitution. That Must Be Maintained, For It Is The Only Safeguard Of Our Liberties.

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.

Whenever I Hear Anyone Arguing For Slavery, I Feel A Strong Impulse To See It Tried On Him Personally.

That Some Achieve Great Success, Is Proof To All That Others Can Achieve It As Well.

No Matter How Much Cats Fight, There Always Seem To Be Plenty Of Kittens.

I Hold That While Man Exists, It Is His Duty To Improve Not Only His Own Condition, But To Assist In Ameliorating Mankind.