Quotes

“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” Abraham Lincoln

“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.” Abraham Lincoln

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.” Abraham Lincoln

“Everybody likes a compliment.” Abraham Lincoln

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” Abraham Lincoln

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” Abraham Lincoln

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” Abraham Lincoln

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

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.” Abraham Lincoln

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

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” Abraham Lincoln

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” Abraham Lincoln

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.” Abraham Lincoln

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” Abraham Lincoln

“Fourscore 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.” 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.” Abraham Lincoln

“Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.” Abraham Lincoln

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” Abraham Lincoln

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.” Abraham Lincoln

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” Abraham Lincoln

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” Abraham Lincoln

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

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.” Abraham Lincoln

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” Abraham Lincoln

“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.” Abraham Lincoln

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.” Abraham Lincoln

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” Abraham Lincoln

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” Abraham Lincoln