Quotes

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.” 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 exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” Abraham Lincoln

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” Abraham Lincoln

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Abraham Lincoln

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln

“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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.” Abraham Lincoln

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” Abraham Lincoln

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.” Abraham Lincoln

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

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” Abraham Lincoln

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

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

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

“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” Abraham Lincoln

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” Abraham Lincoln

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

“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” Abraham Lincoln

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.” Abraham Lincoln

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” Abraham Lincoln

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” Abraham Lincoln

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.” Abraham Lincoln

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” Abraham Lincoln