quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— 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

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

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

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

"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 look for the bad in people will surely find it."
— 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

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

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

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

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

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

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
— Abraham Lincoln