Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

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

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

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 - Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

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; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations - Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - discussing the issue of slavery

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.