Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
