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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Total quotes: 204
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”
— Abraham Lincoln, One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity
Tagged: Personality, Impressions, Empathy
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
— Abraham Lincoln, via Amazon
Tagged: Silence, Ignorance
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Determination, Success
“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Nature, Science, Study, Profit, Pleasure
“Let us 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
Tagged: Faith, Duty, Right Makes Might
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs: A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers
Tagged: Slow learner, slow, Progress, Continuous Delivery
“Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Lawyers, Honesty, Judgment
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Freedom, God
“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.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Restraint, Silence
“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Turnabout
“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Right And Wrong
“Abraham Lincoln is my nam[e]
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Poetry
“Military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Military, War, Blood, rainbow
“All I ask for the negro is that if you not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little let him enjoy.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: God, Black Americans
“I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Christians, prayer
“I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Constitution, Public Servant
“Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Genius, Adventurousness
“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Discretion, Eternity
“You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slave, Master, Democracy, Slavery, Freedom
“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.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Liberty, Freedom, Equality
“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.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Labor, Capital, Socialism, Capitalism
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Intemperance, Temperance, Genius, Generosity
“The legitimate object of government is 'to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves'.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Government, Collectivism
“Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen
he will be good but
god knows When”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Poems
“We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Civil War, Wisdom, God
“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Russia, Autocrats, Slavery
“The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Slave-Owners, Slave-Traders, Slave-Breeders
“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Religion, atheism, Scoffing
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Fate, Destiny
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Conservatism
“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.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Slavery, Abolitionism
“Whatever Spiteful fools may Say —
Each jealous, ranting yelper —
No woman ever played the whore
Unless She had a man to help her.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Poetry, seduction, Spiteful, Jealous, Whore
“I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Marriage, Blockhead, Self-deprecation
“And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation...”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Black Soldiers
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: God's Will
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Lookism, looks
“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: Public Sentiment, Popular Opinion
“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: character, Reputation, Analogies, Metaphors
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