Quotes

“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln

“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” Abraham Lincoln

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.” Abraham Lincoln

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” Abraham Lincoln

“Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” Abraham Lincoln

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.” Abraham Lincoln

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.” Abraham Lincoln

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.” Abraham Lincoln

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” Abraham Lincoln

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” Abraham Lincoln

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.” Abraham Lincoln

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” Abraham Lincoln

“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.” Abraham Lincoln

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” Abraham Lincoln

“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” 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

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.” Abraham Lincoln

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.” Abraham Lincoln

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.” Abraham Lincoln

“The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.” Abraham Lincoln

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.” Abraham Lincoln

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” Abraham Lincoln

“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” Abraham Lincoln

“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.” Abraham Lincoln

“Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.” Abraham Lincoln

“Public opinion in this country is everything.” Abraham Lincoln

“When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.” Abraham Lincoln

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” Abraham Lincoln

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.” Abraham Lincoln