Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

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

We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When th...

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

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

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or...

With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would...

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could...

Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?