"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count,
It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
— 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

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
— Abraham Lincoln

"...my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side..."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"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

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"
— Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
— Abraham Lincoln

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."
— Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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— Abraham Lincoln

"The Best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
— Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
— Abraham Lincoln (The Gettysburg address)

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me insufficient for that day."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
— 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 am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
— Abraham Lincoln

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

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
— 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 purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.' "
— Abraham Lincoln

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Die when I may, I want it said 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