Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
-Abraham Lincoln in Enemies quotes.

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax."
-Abraham Lincoln

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."
-Abraham Lincoln in Memory quotes.

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

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
-Abraham Lincoln in Courage quotes.

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
-Abraham Lincoln in Future quotes.

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln in Silence quotes.

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."
-Abraham Lincoln in Education quotes.

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."
-Abraham Lincoln in Heart quotes.

"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 in Light quotes.

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln in Ability quotes.

"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
-Abraham Lincoln in Testing quotes.

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
-Abraham Lincoln in Vices quotes.

"Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
-Abraham Lincoln in Truth quotes.

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."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

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln in Silence quotes.

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
-Abraham Lincoln in Time quotes.

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
-Abraham Lincoln

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again."
-Abraham Lincoln in Sorrow quotes.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
-Abraham Lincoln in Laws quotes.

"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

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
-Abraham Lincoln in Justice quotes.