Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Everybody likes a compliment.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
