Abraham Lincoln Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
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.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
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.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Written by Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Written by Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
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.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Written by Abraham Lincoln

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