Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Public opinion in this country is everything.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Some day I shall be President.
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.
