Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

In very truth he was, the noblest work of God—an honest man.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

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.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, 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.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don’t deny it. I’d rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh—anything but work.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

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

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Every person’s happiness is their own responsibility.

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 up to what light I have.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.