Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawk...

Achievement has no color

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

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

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...

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relis...

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.