Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Quotes

• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

• He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

• ...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

• He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.

• 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.

• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

• People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

• But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

• The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That�s my religion.