Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - Blooded to fall into this vice.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to 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 me.Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?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 excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.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.Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.Abraham Lincoln
If I were two - Faced, would I be wearing this one.Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.Abraham Lincoln
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.Abraham Lincoln
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.Abraham Lincoln
Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.Abraham Lincoln
