Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pro...

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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

I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew...

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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